Who is Richard Chacha?
Richard Chacha is a veteran media personality who worked for NTV for over a decade. During his time at the Nation Media Group, he served as a TV reporter before being promoted to political affairs editor.
Prior to joining NTV in 2004, Chacha was a vernacular radio presenter at the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). However, in recent years, the iconic journalist has not been seen on television screens.
Where has he been? Now, Times Digital explores why Richard Chacha no longer appears on TV.
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Richard Chacha accident that left him paralyzed
Chacha who was at the peak of his career on NTV was involved inwhen he was involved in a tragic road accident that would be the turning point of his life.
This happened when the veteran journalist was traveling in a Toyota Land Cruiser alongside NTV editor Fred Karema and his CCTV counterpart, Emmanuel Tallam. The incident occurred along the Mai Mahiu–Narok Highway in 2012.
After the road accident, Richard Chacha was left paralyzed forcing him to give up on his career thereafter.
Although there was speculation that NTV had fired him due to his condition, the Nation Media Group TV station denied this, stating that the former award-winning reporter simply quit his job.
“It was very tough. I remembered I used to run around in the corridors of parliament conducting interviews. And then I realized I could not even access most buildings… “
said Chacha during a past interview as quoted by Tuko.
Friends turned back on him
After being declared paralysed as a result of the accident, the former journalist learned a great lesson after he left his TV role, as some of his close allies were no longer interested in him. According to Richard Chacha, they thought he needed help every time he called them.
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” I wonder what happened to some of these close friends. Maybe, they thought that whenever I called, I would be asking for help, which was not the case.”
Richard Chacha told The Standard during a past interview.
Just three years after the accident, the Mombasa County Governor appointed Richard Chacha as the Director of Communications and Public Relations for Mombasa County.
Since his tenure at the Mombasa county government office came to an end, the former NTV senior political and current affairs reporter has lived a low-key life to date.
