Work equipment belonging to DJ Joe Mfalme has been confiscated after failing to perform at a family event during the just-concluded December festivities.
According to WhatsApp communication, the DJ was contracted on November 6, 2024, to deliver his services at a posh wedding in Kisumu County on Friday, December 27, 2024.
He was also tasked with providing a sound system for the event, all totalling to KSh180,000, money that was deposited to him in two installments of KSh100,000 on December 4 and the balance on December 26, a day before the event.
While the DJ provided the sound equipment as required, he failed to show up at the event, tasking a right-hand man to offer the DJ services.
He only informed us hours before the event that he was unable to travel to Kisumu over an alleged ‘emergency’. We waited for him at the afterparty, where he was also to offer his services; he was a no-show," a family spokesperson says, tabling WhatsApp chats where the DJ had claimed he was on his way to the airport to board a flight to Kisumu on the wedding day but later started ignoring calls.
The family has since declined to release the sound equipment that was used at the wedding until the DJ refunds them a sum of KSh85,000 that he charged for his undelivered services.
“He was not genuine; he lied to us that he was on his way to the airport; later that night, we have photos of him playing music at another event in Nairobi,” the family says.
A WhatsApp text from the DJ on Dec 27 at 945AM, says, “Hello bro, nimepata ka emergency. But among those people wamekuja na sound, there is one DJ; he will sort you out well.”
The family says they will not release the equipment, which includes a MacBook, a mini turntable, and four sound speakers, until they receive their demanded refund.
The DJ has since refunded KSh37,000, promising to settle the balance by mid-February 2025.
