After having a very anxious festive season, employees at East Africa's biggest media organisation, Nation Media Group, are in utter panic following the sacking of one of its top managing editors, Eric Obino.

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Obino, the Sunday Nation managing editor (now former), was shown the door from the Nation Centre yesterday, Wednesday 11, 2017, leaving behind him a cloud of panic hovering over other employees, as the media giant's mass sacking continues to loom.

However, reliable sources from the giant media house informed us that Obino was systematically moved to production as the managing editor, a new position created after some directors rejected the move to sack him.

It's barely two weeks since the Kenya Union of Journalist went to court seeking orders to bar the organisation from firing its employees.

Last year, the company fired dozens of its employees, as part of its restructuring plan.

A former NMG employee Wahome Thuku (the guy who predicted the nasty road accident at Kinungi) took to social media to 'break' the news of the latest sacking, and how he was also sacked from the company:

At a pre-Christmas staff meeting held at the Nation Centre last year, CEO Joe Muganda said the final phase of its new strategy of transforming the group into a modern 21st-century digital content company would climax with the sacking of employees in January 2017.

"Regrettably, this will result in a reduction of our workforce through job redundancies. This exercise will be undertaken in January 2017 with due respect to our employees and within the provisions of the law," read part of a press release.

However, following the KUJ's move to file a case in court, the Industrial Court threw the spanner in the works when it asked the media house to hold on until it makes submissions in the case against the layoffs.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that about 20 employees are facing eminent sacking from the media house.