Comedian and TV producer whose name is in almost every TV show in the country, Abel Mutua took time to give thanks to the people who have helped in his personal life and his career in a series of posts on social media which he dubbed #RandomPeopleAppreciationWeek a few weeks ago and he appreciated the international stand-up comedian and Thursday Night Live Host comedian who aspires to host the B.E.T Awards someday in the future, Dr. Ofweneke.
Dr. Ofweneke changed his life together with his wife, then fiancée by being the emcee for the wedding for free since they were short of money to afford one but Dr. Ofweneke agreed to be the emcee for free when Abel Mutua called him, prior to that, they had already met 3 times in their entire lives.
” There are good people out here. @drofweneke is definitely one of them. I can only pray for you Sir.” Abel Mutua said in part in his long post on Instagram believing that indeed one day Dr. Ofweneke will host the B.E.T Awards.
“#RandomPeopleAppreciationWeek This week I’m taking time off to appreciate individuals who’ve come through for me at one point or the other and I’m starting with this gentleman! The eagle himself. In 2015 My baby and I planned our wedding in less than a month. No committee, no nothing. It was heavy. 3 days to the event after we’ve run out of cash it hits us that we forgot to get an MC. I pick up the phone and call this gentleman right here. Mind you we had only met less than 3 times before this day. I tell him my story and without thinking twice, he tells me, ‘Bro! Arusi lazima ifanyike. Nitumie details zote, kitu ipigwe!’ He agreed to do it free of charge. I couldn’t believe it. There are good people out here. @drofweneke is definitely one of them. I can only pray for you Sir. Hiyo stage ya BET lazima utakanyaga. Shukran Babaa. I appreciate you.” Abel Mutua wrote.
On the same note, Abel Mutua also talked about how The Murayas, Dj Mo and Size 8 changed his life in two separate occasions in his career that he can never ever forget.
Dj Mo provided Abel Mutua with sound equipment needed to shoot a pilot for a TV show that we all came to know and love called Hapa Kule News on KTN.
This story by Abel Mutua is so inspirational that it will be unfair if I had to add anything else rather than letting you read it on your self to understand and know how helping a brother up goes a long way.
“#RandomPeopleAppreciationWeek. Allow me to break the norm and start with the gentleman. In 2009 Churchill did a Comic Search reality show called Top Comic. The winner was to walk away with a DMax and a TV contract. We were six finalists by the end of the season. One winner was to come from us. We decided everyone gets a piece of it so we agreed that the winner would be the face of the new Tv show and the other five would be his support cast. My good friend @oyoo_geoffrey scooped the prize but because of a few understandable reasons, the contract never came through. So we had to do it by ourselves by shooting a pilot. Did we have the money? Ngumu!!!! So we started asking for Favours left right and Centre. That’s when I met this gentleman @djmokenya FOR THE FIRST TIME. I told him that we needed sound since it was a comedy gig but we had no money at all. Mo did not even ask for transport money. He transported his equipment to location, did the set up, played for us during the entire gig, and was the last one to leave the venue after everyone had left. We never gave him a single dime. I owe you one my brother. Almost a decade down the line but that gesture made a whole difference in my life. God bless you manze. Fast forward to four years later in May of 2013. The comedy we were trying had finally bore fruit. We landed a gig on KTN called Hapa Kule News. The pilot Episode was watched by around 10 executive members at KTN. 9 of them didn’t like it at all. Only 1 pushed it to go on air. And it really sucked when it did. I remember one of my favorite rappers @labalaamakau wrote on my Twitter ‘This show is crap’. 51 times. Iza jo brathe, ilikuwa ndio tunaanza tu. 😂😂😂. So the pressure to impress on Ep 2 was real. So we needed to have a guest star who wd make an impact so that we cd drive traffic to the show. All the bigwigs we talked to turned us down. Until someone suggested @size8reborn. She was a heavyweight at the time as well,but she never pulled a diva moment on us even after making her sit on a stone. She made us shine! Shukran!!! Because of your heart, Your family is blessed mamaa. Mbali ndio mnaenda. Barikiweni sana. Oh and that Ep 2 Killed it!!! 😂😂😂😂” Abel Mutua explained on his Instagram post.
