The end the end. Goal me. The a 2nd time in office has been around seen around me an. Honest mistake something. Done nothing to you the one mph or nothing on health care in the country despite your bluster how can be one of the big 4 telling us the luxury night restaurants are going to house a ranch that just recently and. My name is john allen im im a kenyan investigative journalist based in nairobi and im the cofounder of Africa Uncensored african sense and is an investigative and indepth journalism collective our goal is to show africa as it really is the good the bad the ugly the potential. In kenya unfortunately for many years and i think even before donald trump sort of like popularized the phrase freak news that government has been involved in the business of lying to its public. The challenge of being able to find the truth in this country is that everything is politicized in this way our politics has interfered with even the simplest of things i think the 2nd is corruption and corruption starts from the top and many of those caught. People are sitting on the top of government so that means that the information that youre seeking will only be as true as the person who is giving it to you. Tomorrow as well press freedom day is being celebrated in Addis Ababa Ethiopia thats why the world will call gets to morrow for that the same Day International federation of journalists even 28914 and its what i do for dennis what killed what was the state of media and thats what we interrogate him to do on the program thats what weve called i guess you have to have at his cousin and how dennis navigate in that you know in a position in a situation where they feel that those in authority or pic in how they transact thats a difficult question to answer especially in this country because were perceived to be the free media in the region but i really think we need to have a more substantive and more long running discussion about whats happening in the counties ok because thats where the people are really at the coalface theyre you know and theyre facing very powerful individuals were operating with impunity and very often threaten the lives of journalists would you recommend more journalists explore independent journalism the path you took a couple of years back for sure journalists are consistently having to deal with what is a government not a tool that supposedly the oficial not a tip on which journalists sometimes you like to be able to tell the public whats going on if that official narrative itself cant be trusted then it makes journalists work that much harder. When i was in Mainstream Media a number of things happened from about 2012 on ones my own that i should go out on my own good to see what you know minute i think and the 1st thing that that did take place was that we became targets. Of the state in terms of trying to suppress the kind of information that we were producing. In 2014 we we produced an investigative report about the 2013 general election and my boss my bosss boss clearly told me dont challenge the president the fact that i as a journalist was told that you can go this far and no further in the company that was supposed to uphold the values of Public Interest that didnt sit well with me and thats where my colleagues and i decided to found Africa Uncensored and step up. 2 years ago i received an email and the person on the other and told me that they had. A very Interesting Data set that would give me an understanding of how corruption really works in Public Finance management and i ready for that the information that this person wanted to give me was indeed true. So the data set we received sure us that this called up networks in many many places but the police if we chose to focus our attention on was in the ministry of health because this is one of the president s key pillars for delivery to the public and it seems as if its either been hijacked or it was formulated to steal from this country warning. You guys. All right beauty now on the Wealth Managers who are looking at. People who are no managing this well for seems that seems to be lost money and the connections to these 263 companies so no joy in terms of you work the lead in a lot of questions our investigation started. On the news that we see question at the time we didnt think that it was fake news. But as weve investigated its become very clear that certain aspects of what the government was saying regarding the medical Equipment Leasing scheme are indeed feelings. Beauty is ahead of data shes a statistician and shes very very good at looking at peter said trying to extract meaning from them. Security has been doing quite a bit of research looking into people who are we are calling Wealth Managers were calling them Wealth Managers because at the time we werent absolutely sure whether these people were conduits for corrupt proceeds or the labor all that helped manage those corrupt networks i guess what nick would be whatever f. A. Q. Would be joy. Is looking at what we impact. Or what the b. Tell you seeing is on the public so enjoy walton friend when your human stories that youll see in the report. And i. Know what it was im not the guy to be blunt but weve got you know i mean. I think it would probably. I did not would i did i love i did you know i did not how can i get mad at you know. Whether or not but i you cannot you cannot i dont i mean what. Oh oh oh. Right now im walking on a story that hes focusing on the medical scheme that you know was introduced to the country by our government. Is benumbed bottle about the soup thing because not defaming you why sure how much has been spent so far. My responsibility to walk on a story that is public is so obvious that you know how king is i mean being for something that theyre not you know benefiting from. At times it is so difficult. Not to get emotionally attached for this particular story i have seen very desperate situations where someone is seeking but they come to bail for one of the little pain killers to be able to at least relieve some of that. So how can i just. Find a job to reassess. You in the negative. And best place for simply living in your plan b. Assigning me im both so cool going to a big. Concert. Cervical choir. The total of congress will know when i saw the whole concert going on 1022. 00. Also feeling difficulty in. Number. One of them being the band. Who couldnt. Turn to me not to. Turn. On the illusion. Is. Because from amman. Jordan and or. My dorms is. Going to. Who are actually single offices i was. In the midst of continuous bells. If you have been found i mean. Its up to me. Could you please really. Class communities to have a leader and believes he can work with cancer but who were denied me a business meeting when he was saying im going to be are limited and i mean really i dont like your good you know exactly what did happen. Did it up or down gotham has a new path i mean a question. Again i must get back to some good on both acuity. I can now did not i was one of the but i got to have good idea of awkward angle i guess i make when i was is that im glad im out of work and thats where. We. Want to do is to establish whether. Whether shes i want to find out if shes there and find out how she gets to engage exactly with these Companies Make whats take a change i would step process so that the dictates of his opera russia and the like today is than a big issue for each thought that there is there is an ethical issue with it but why were navigating this phrase because of your really how the primo rushy evidence is only that you are wondering about. How we couldnt do it every day i didnt get the information much as it feels internally im comfortable that you know youre going to be putting somebody on the sports next week that essentially is organizing these rights or you dont want. You are looking for the truth and the truth sometimes can be uncomfortable for people to reveal in and we might not like incorporate writing about i can guarantee you this case. I think will make you for it but what will we spend the last couple of months and in doing is specifically you has been very fine but what we have been doing is true were going to confirm it with the present was at the center of it but youll be fine here so ok then ill think you have a quarter of the beginning of a conversation you had just just be natural being with a fast game to really do such an investigation i feel now by scare and and im fucked in the boat or to me abit and i also feel. It is it tonight is what im doing is it fair. So they just go in just as go all the gory germs they really at their pretend being. I feel i feel like i just want this thing to finish and move on. What you found out for phrase quite well by way i mean. Billions of money that is unexplained because some of the transactions were seeing are 2. 00 of the 2 last that a petition that will be mens and this provision our own country that there must be a government official. Effecting these is transactions. The numbers never lie the biggest challenge is there is the direction to access that data. Days of cause effort to make sure that that data is not accessible to their public. So that whenever there is provide data about something then we have something to counter that we have if we did but if you dont really have that information what else can you do at i know you find that even some of the journalist having to be better if it can use as a view because theres not not access to the truth. Oh my. Oh. Yes. You know i didnt think i went to anything going into this nice kid too mom. You know if youve heard her. Say so you will see it here so youre like a Company Secretary too Many Companies that if they can i have as many air networks as i emerge or you know i was in there in a meeting but i suspect that even bush was mother she is very smart take to exactly this is the 1st meeting but we need to think clearly a bold question because now weve gone from going to possibly zap us an opportunity form an office in town and that seems to be the person whos doing that business the next step after he said after making all confirmations will be not to go and give a way to respond say look we have you know look through this bit of we have seen major connected 260 i go up and i think if 100 now returned from this next guy that was your trouble how bad it was that was a bad person. Im not certain how the next step is going to go but we have to get rid of response about what youre writing in our story so definitely that you want to talk or not we still have to go back and get her view about all of this. Factor that we have about how. I wish i knew what was going to happen when we publish my hope is that once they see that they will start to question the government very seriously specifically about something that is as close to the heart of kenyans as health care. For the government itself to be involved in this for something or sensitive or as health care is not only worrying it really be fines the times that we live in with regard to and of course truth where anybody especially people with the kind of machinery to push out certain information can have millions of people believing a lie when the truth is far different. Today will that play before the alamo end of the boy in our fundraiser for their thinking about their questions that they want to ask our end of the confirmations that i wanted to make and i was thinking how how does this go. Which is the best we to get this information from i imagine in i think you only what if this becomes legally. Crucifying were to get. People to harass me but if she finds out that i have this information about her i feel quite gay and. And quite unsure of how things will go. I feel like if it came out as african 10 times we were going to bring our this or that bandaid youre not allowed in the days to hear him doing these things so im not sure what people would think if they know such a small buzz on like me i was part of it. For medicine to do their story and know that this 3rd hand impact but i dont know and maybe you would need i do know better theyve. Had. This is period are you today. We were to meet this week. I think i didnt realize that sometimes i put it into something if you dont want to be fabulous i think i forgot to remove it so i. Can image tomorrow i wanted to come with one of my batman being did. No problem so see you tomorrow. How i think you. And i. Fit news im a useful false information has become somewhat of a primary pillar of governmental state strategy whenever they want to do something branding things that freak uses very effective to be because as long as you can continually discredit the media the public looks at stories that are like. Should i really trust this even know journalists i worked hard to try and verify the information. For this or its this. Journalist who do pursue the truth often get ostracized some journalists when pursuing stories that would paint the government in a bad light or would expose them ive been arrested have been the focus of entrapment so seeing that my work and my profession might put me in harms way scares me it does but i think that the rule of journalism is that we publish those things that people dont want published even if it doesnt mean that we are scared because at the moment that citizens have the information that they require. To lead their lives thats when positive change happens. To go to this one. I came. To that. This is a very really Good Opportunity for me to use my skills for ones for humanity. Trying. To get that through the deaf or number. Grows just that it did i give less than what i got you might not be good for guns and said so yourself anything. In the investigation if. I feel the people mentioned in this story to hear me me pretentiousness has to give a critter enough to punish us because because it touches on the fields of people in power. In the gun and computer you think. You might not know the person. Youre doing this story for. About 4 something for him to do and one be about possible find just to see frankie. For. Citizens are going to be expecting the house forming a clear show this. Artist says they need somebody to explain to them what is happening out there for whatever reason. Be a show that one can take in all things nothing like that took so long lead to what congress after. That. I feel it is worth a sacrifice i think one day when. 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