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Standard Group employees Zubeida Koome (L) and Linda Bach (R) won seats in the April 24, 2021 Editors Guild elections. [Standard]
Standard Group staffers, Zubeida Koome and Linda Bach, have been elected to the Editors Guild Executive Council.
Koome on Saturday, April 24 beat Sammy Maina of national broadcaster KBC to bag the Vice President position in the 2021 polls held virtually. She takes over from Maina, who was seeking re-election.
Bach, a Quality Assurance Editor, on the other hand, was elected the Council Member for Print, taking over from Evelyne Kwamboka, whom she faced off in the friendly contest. Both Bach and Kwamboka are employees of Standard Group PLC.
Alfred Munyua and Sarah Hassan in Crime & Justice
While MultiChoice has been operating in Kenya for 25 years and produces over 10 original Kenyan productions a year, the group has announced it first Showmax original being produced in partnership with CANAL+.
Crime & Justice is a gritty police procedural and legal show set in Nairobi starring Sarah Hassan (Plan B, How to Find a Husband) and Alfred Munyua (Poacher, The First Grader, Sense8) as Makena and Silas. The two detectives are at the heart of the topical show that follows one ripped-from-the-headlines case per episode, all the way through to the courtroom verdict.
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