'I was 5 months pregnant with twins!' Anne Ngugi on losing her job

BBC journalist, Anne Ngugi is among the few celebrities who have come forward to encourage the journalists who lost their precious jobs at mediamax network.

According to reports, mediamax network fired its entire newsroom staff only sparing two employees.

Ngugi, a former employee at the company, knows too well the pain of losing a job, after they fired her back in 2014 while she was 5 months pregnant with Twins.

According to Ngugi, that sudden loss, left her broken inside, depressed, lost her self esteem and her friends in the process.

She encourages her colleagues to stay strong and know that no matter which direction they take, things will eventually work out.

Read her post below,

To my Colleagues at Mediamax who have tasted rejection at a time the world is fighting a pandemic and a company I believe you all loved to work has just said adieus ! I feel compelled to encourage you today as someone who went through where you are right now ! I know the feeling of receiving the news that you are no longer needed ! I can almost smell the morning of 2014 end July , when around 73 of us were hurled in to one of the top hotels in Nairobi and pieces of papers which shouted redundancy were thrown at us ! Mind you I was 5months pregnant with Twins ! and here I was rejected ! I used to think am indispensable until that day ! Ladies and gentleman I can hear your anger and pain ! No matter how much you try to put a brave face , inside you are beaten you are down right now ! But you know what you can rise again ! I got depressed , I lost my self esteem and many friends just disappeared ! If I’m the one today who is working again after my Name was tarnished and was I the talk of town for a while then my story will be your story some days to come ! To some it will take months others years ! No matter what direction you plan to take remember this ! There is always a light at the end of the tunnel ! Remain hopeful : there is something good and useful after a long period of hardship and despair ! Am a phone call away Incase you need a voice of encouragement !