Hustlers Family The Kenyan Bongo Crew With a Flick In Tanzania Movies

Hustlers Family Crew L to R, Wycliffe Mwita (DXL), Chacha Mwita (Chacha Kongo), John Chacha (Mnati),Joseph Mosiabi (Junior Michapo).

Hustlers Family a crew of two brothers and their cousins from Kuria area in Migori County have rocked the music scene with bongo songs.

The brothers John Chacha (Mnati) and Joseph Mosiabi (Junior Michapo) started the crew started the crew in April 2005 but due to education they have been struggling to pick up and incorporated their two cousin Chacha Mwita (Chacha Kongo) and Wycliffe Mwita (DXL).

All of the crew members made a break through after acting in a bongo movie Mtambo Wa Pesa Bandia part 1 & 2 produced by Tivoli Studios in Mwanza, Tanzania after the producer was interested after they released their latest video album Yatima.

In the movie Chacha Kongo acted as a spy selling espionage from a company, Mnati acted as Superintendent of Police, equivalent to OCS in Kenya while DXL and Junior Michapo acted as thugs.

“We were approached by the producer after producing our latest video album and were performing in Musoma and Mwanza in Tanzania to act in the movie and after it had a mild review we acted in part 2 last year,” Mnati says.

Mnati who is the oldest of the crew members said he started singing in 2005 and has released three songs so far Alice when his lover he had educated to college left him, I Wanna Love You and Yatima which talks about orphan children in the society.

The rest started singing between 2001-2010 when they were still in school and only took music and the crew serious in 2010 when Chacha Kongo was the last o finished high school.

“After 2010 we took music seriously and have managed to have shows in Migori, Kisii, Trans Mara, Kilgoris, Isebania and in Tanzania,” DXL said.

In the video album Chacha Kongo has a song Maria and Mama, DXL has Anis Nipe Majibu while Junior Michapo has Vera.

The album has been produced by ‘Sifa Films’ production based in Nairobi

The crew say that music has been a major source of income to the family and has brought fame to the family which has been a major boost in their business as they run a popular pub called Mnati in Kehancha town.

“We have managed to get good audience in town we perform where we get about 30,000-50,000 for performance which helped in producing our songs,” Mnati says.

He added that as the only singing group from Kuria and their Bongo genre of music they’ll break into the national scene and plan to land more movie roles in Tanzania.

Manuel Odeny © 2013

Kuria man jailed for 7 years for stealing five cows

By Burning Splint Writer

A Trans Mara man has been jailed for seven years after a court found him guilty of stealing five cows worthSh150,000.

The accused, Stephen Chacha is said to have stolen the cows belonging to Samuel Murget at Ngoperai area of Trans Mara on August 18 last year.

Appearing before the Kilgoris Principal Magistrate Bernard Ochieng’ the complainant told the court that on the fateful day he discovered his cows were missing while driving his heard home in the evening after grazing them.

He added that he immediately informed his neighbours who searched the animals to no avail before reporting the matter to the area chief who reported the matter in the neighbouring Kuria East district where the animals were spotted.

“We were informed by the area chief that the cows have been spotted at the accused home after which we went there and confirmed it,” Murget told the court.

But in mitigation the accused said he found the cows wondering in the grazing field without a herder and took them home for safety saying he “only took the cows to my home because they did not appear to have an owner.”

But in his ruling the magistrate found the accused guilty as charged saying since cattle rustling was rampant in the area causing conflict the sentence will “serve as a lesson to others with similar motives.

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