Standard Group owned top radio station Spice FM was forced to swallow a bitter pill and apologise to its vast audience following a phone call conversation that propagated lies.
According to the Situation room presenters led by Eric Latiff, a parent from Kisumu claimed that there were 4 deaths of students triggered by Covid-19.
The audience further claimed that one of the students was his child.
However, after thorough investigation, the station management learnt that the person was neither a parent nor related to any student in the said school and that the information given was a fabrication.
The Standard Group has since apologised over the matter.
Spice FM now most listened radio station broadcasting nationwide appeals to an older more mature target audience with a number of reputable media personalities among them Eric Latiff, Political communications expert Njeri Thorne, Communications Consultant Ndu Okoh and scholar Charles Muga who hosts the program ‘Situation Room’.
Spice FM rose to the top in the radio industry together with its sister stations Radio Maisha and Vybez FM that plays reggae music.
The station has given its closest opponents among them Classic 105 stiff competition.
