Abel Mutua Musyoka is a Kenyan actor, screenwriter, Content Creator, comedian, storyteller and co-owner of The Phil-it Productions Ltd.
He is commonly known by his stage name ‘Freddie’, which he acquired while acting in the Tahidi High TV Show on Citizen TV. Nowadays he has a new sensational name of Mkurugenzi, which he uses to introduce himself in his YouTube Channel shows of Celebrity First Encounters, Stories Of My Life, Young and Stupid and Headline Hitters.
Abel Mutua Life History
Abel Mutua was born in Pumwani Maternity Hospital on August 28 1986. They lived in Umoja 1 Estate from 1986 up to 1991 when his father decided to abandon them.
After 1991, the moved to Kayole estate but later came back to Umoja. They moved to Ministry of Works Government houses in Karanja Road, Kibera in 1997 after his mother got married again to a gentleman called ……..
He says going to live in Kibera was a downgrade in life. His star had started to dim but thanks to a girl called Milkah, his childhood sweetheart, he remained on course.
He lived in Kibera until 2008 when he and his buddy Philip Karanja moved to Pangani Estate after having more disposable income.
In 2012, he moves his young family to a bigger house in Thindigua, Kiambu Road
Abel Mutua Job and Career History
Abel Mutua has worked in the following companies or entities
- Citizen TV in Tahidi High and an actor and scriptwriter and Mother in Law as a scriptwriter
This is where he worked until August 2012 when he collapsed in his Thindigua house bathroom due to fatigue, after a 36 hours scripting marathon. While at the hospital, a nurse told him this Gospel truth, “You do some good work there, but when you die of overwork, we will mourn you for a few days and life will continue very normally and an immediate replacement will be found.” Abel resigned from Royal Media Services a short while after. - The face of TeamUhuru 2013 Presidential Campaigns
- The Uwezo Youth Fund Ambassador under The Office of the President
- Protel Studios as an unpaid host for the K24 TV LOL show, a reporter for Hapa Kule News and Scriptwriter for Real House helps of Kawangware, both in KTN.
- Phil-it Productions Ltd
Abel’s Love for Film, TV and Acting
When Abel Mutua was 4 years, his dad bought a ‘National’ black and white TV. Abel became so much accustomed to it that the seed for his love for the screen was planted. He would remember and recite the whole KBC TV programme lineup from Sunday to Saturday. His mum would even boast to her friends about his programme line up memory.
His love for the screen was catapulted to the skies in 1992 when their neighbour, Mr. Ochieng, went to the village for the Christmas holiday and left a Sony 14″ coloured TV with them. That is when that love for TV was sealed.
This love was further catalysed by a trip their class made to the KBC TV studios.
Later on in Kibera, in 1998, Abel meets Ishmael Mohammed, of KBC Radio, and Presidential Press Service who rejuvenates his desire for broadcast media and points his desire to schooling at Kenya Institute of Mass Communication.
Upon joining Ayany Estate Primary School in 1999, he and his friend Clifford Otieno started reenacting the then famous Redycyulass TV Show belonging to the KU students Walter Mong’are, Tony Njuguna and John Kiarie. This gave Abel early exposure to acting.
Still, in the same school, he collided with a teacher called Mrs Rabut who sustained his thespian fire through a solo verse she wrote for him. This verse gave him, even more, exposure and experience in performance when he went to present it to a wider audience.
When he went to Makueni Boys High School, he helped start the drama club in the school. This gave him the exposure up to the national level in the school drama festivals. This helped him to know a bit of scriptwriting and also stage presence.
After completing his O level education in 2004 he enrolled to Join Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC) to pursue a Diploma in Film Production. He says he went to learn about his hobby. He majored in Camerawork.
After he joined the institution’s drama club, called The Power House, he acted in a play that won at the National Drama competitions. This is where his talent was identified by Citizen TV and he, together with others landed on celebrity roles in the sensational TV drama Tahidi High. There he acted as Freddie.
Education Background
Abel has attended these schools in his life
- Umoja Catholic Montessori Nursery School from 1990 – 1992
- Unity Primary School in 1993 and 1995
- Kayole 1 Primary School in 1994
- Eastend Junior Academy, Tena
- St Mary’s Academy Dohnholm from 1996 – 1998
- Ayany Estate Primary School, Kibera from 1999 – 2000
- Makueni Boys High School
- Kenya Institute of Mass Communication
Abel Mutua Put in a Cell at School
In 2004, in Form Four, while waiting to sit for the KCSE Exams, one student in their class felt that he was not ready to sit for the exams. The only was to make sure that he escapes his fate with the inevitable examiner, was to burn down the school domitory.
While he was at it, his plan was found and a trap was put for him. The watchman nabbed him on the act.
The school administration not convinced that he could plan to execute the whole arson alone, the culprit was hard-pressed to reveal his co-perpetrators. Abel was maliciously mentioned by the guy as a co-planner.
Abel, being a delinquent from Kibera, Nairobi who never missed suspension from school in any given year, could not convince anyone that he was not part of the plan. His valid alibi could not even be trusted.
He ended up in a school cell at the main gate of the school pending further investigations. Luckily, it took the culprits mother to persuade the guy to recant his statement that Abel was a co-perpetrator. Abel was eventually and unconditionally released from the school cell.
Abel Mutua Age
As of 2021, Abel Mutua is 35 years old
Abel Mutua Wife
Abel Mutua’s wife is called Judy Nyawira, a girl born in Kibirigwi , Kirinyaga County. They met while at school in Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC)
Abel Mutua Father
The biological father to Abel Mutua was from Nakuru County and worked with the ADC – Agricultural Development Corporation. He was rarely in Abel’s life for he used to travel alot. He abandoned Abel’s family in 1992. He now lives in Delaware USA.
His second dad worked with the Ministry of Health at Afya House, Nairobi. He met Abel’s mother while at work in 1997.
Abel Mutua Mother
Abel Mutua’s mother is called Stephanie Mumbua. She worked with the Ministry of Agriculture at Kilimo House, Nairobi. She passed on due to cardiac arrest on October 5 2009, three months before the birth of her first granddaughter Stephanie Mumbua.
Abel’s Siblings
Abel Mutua has seven siblings, one brother, one half brother, four step brothers and one step sister.
Abel Mutua Daughter
Abel Mutua’s daughter is called Stephanie Mumbua. She is named after his mother. She was born on January 5 2010.
Phil-it Productions
Abel Mutua is a co-owner of Phil-it Productions together with Philip Karanja. Initially, Dennis Mugo AKA OJ was in the founding group but later decided to do his own stuff.
The idea of forming this production company was mooted around the year 2007 but the actual registration happened in 2015.
Phil-it is coined from the word “feel it”. The idea is that the viewers or the audience should feel their productions. Since Philip is a co-owner, the name was changed to ‘Phil’ then ‘it’. When that name, alongside with other two names, were submitted to the Registrar of Companies in Sheria House for consideration, Phil-it emerged the winner. And so ‘Phil-it’ it was.
Phi-it Productions Ltd started taking shape at the end of 2015 when the Real House helps of Kawangware was shinning. They wanted to, instead of crediting the scriptwriter as Abel Mutua, and producer as Philip Karanja, they credit it as Phi-it Productions Ltd. This did not go down well with Protel Studio’s management, therefore at the beginning of 2016, they called it quits at that production house.
Abel Mutua in Top Comic Show
In 2009, Abel Mutua fought his way up the positions to become the 1st Runners-up in the Top Comic show hosted by Daniel Ndambuki AKA Churchill. The judges were Maina Kageni, Massawe Japanni and Tony Njuguna. Initially, there were about 21,000 young men and women who had gone for the auditions.
According to Abel, the reason he did not clinch the top position to win the pickup prize was because of a story aired in NTV about the hard and challenging life of Geoffrey Oyoo, his fellow contestant, who became the winner.
Abel was considered well-to-do while Oyoo was considered needy and more deserving of the pickup prize.
As fate had it, that prize money (pickup) was to benefit, as the six finalists had discussed, all of them. Geoffrey Oyoo had promised to give each of the Ksh. 50,000. And after winning he fulfilled his promise and Abel Mutua was given his share. He used his share to pay for the hospital maternity bill during his daughters birth.
Abel Mutua Networth
Abel Mutua Residence and Home
Abel lives in Thindigua, Kiambu County
Abel Mutua Car
Abel boasts that he has never driven any other car other than the Mercedes Benz brand. His first car was a maroon stick-shift manual E200 Mercedes Benz.
Abel Mutua Wedding Saga
Abel Mutua Contacts
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