Cebbie Koks Nyasego’s breakup remarks have captured Kenya’s social scrollers, as the 28-year-old influencer and former Miss Malaika laid bare her side of the messy split from businessman Steve Ogolla in a poised Instagram live that clocked 200,000 views by Monday morning.
Speaking from her Nairobi apartment on October 27, 2025, Cebbie, voice steady amid the sting, unpacked the humiliation of their public unravelling, slamming Ogolla’s parade of cows back to her family as less tradition and more theatre.
“Let me speak my truth calmly but firmly. What Steve did was unnecessary, humiliating, and far from the dignity we once shared,” she began, her words a velvet glove over an iron fist, dissecting a romance that fizzled from fairy tale to fiasco in under two years.
The drama ignited last week when Ogolla, 35, staged a Luo cultural ritual in Kisumu, herding 20 cows to Cebbie’s kin as a “dowry reversal”, cameras rolling with bloggers buzzing like flies on fresh kill.
What started as whispers of irreconcilable vibes, fuelled by Ogolla’s late-night club hops and Cebbie’s jet-set glow-up, exploded into tabloid gold, with #OgollaCows trending nationwide.
Cebbie, once the poster girl for empowered love with her Sh10 million beauty brand and podcast empire, felt the blow hardest. “Family and cultural issues deserve privacy, not publicity,” she pressed in the stream, her manicured nails tapping a water glass like a gavel.
Tradition, she conceded, permits such returns if hearts part ways, but not with spotlights and scripts. “Turning pain into performance doesn’t make you honourable; it makes you hurtful.”
Insiders paint a timeline of cracks: Their 2023 engagement dazzled with helicopter proposals over the Mara, but by mid-2025, Ogolla’s “business trips” to Dubai clashed with Cebbie’s solo TEDx talks on self-love.
The cow convoy? A final flex, say pals, after Cebbie called off a quiet divorce filing. “If the cows were truly returned, so be it. But bringing bloggers and cameras wasn’t culture; it was intention, to embarrass, to control the story, and to seek attention,” she fired, her eyes, framed by those signature lashes, flashing rare fire.
Luo elders in Gem weighed in via local FM: “Dowry’s a bridge, not a billboard; Ogolla twisted it for TikTok clout.” Ogolla’s silence speaks volumes; his X account, dormant since the stunt, leaves the narrative to Cebbie’s grace.
“A real man handles closure quietly, not with a press crew,” she mused, pivoting to forgiveness with that influencer poise.
“Still, I hold no grudges. I wish him peace. And to the next bride, I genuinely wish you better luck; maybe this time, the cows will stay.”