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going to be one of the big 4 telling us the last night stand and somehow sometimes that just is me and. my name is john allen i'm i'm a kenyan investigative journalist based in nairobi and i'm the co-founder of africa uncensored african sense and is an investigative and in-depth journalism collective our goal is to show africa as it really use 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 fake news the government has been involved in the business. lying to it. 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 corrupt people are

sitting at the top of government so that means that the information that you're seeking will only be as true as the person who is giving it to you. more as world press freedom day is being celebrated in addis ababa ethiopia that's why the world will call gets to morrow for that matter simply international federation of journalists is imprinted 181914 and this will be for dennis what killed what was the state of media and that's what we interrogate him to do in the program that's what we've called i guess you have to have that is gus 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 that's a difficult question to answer especially in this country because we're 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 what's happening in the counties ok because that's where the people are really at the coalface they're you

know and they're facing very powerful individuals who operate 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 to do that supposedly the oficial not a tip on which journalists sometimes you like to be able to tell the public what's going on if that official not a to be self can't 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 view that i should go

out on my own which is you were in a 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 boss's boss clearly told me don't challenge the president the fact that i as a journalist was told that you can go this far and no further in a company that was supposed to uphold the values of public interest that didn't sit well with me and that's where my colleagues and i decided to found africa uncensored and step out. 2 years ago i received an e-mail 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 really feel that the information that this person wanted to give me was indeed true. so the data set we receive sure us that is 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 it's either been hijacked or it was formulated to steal from this country warning. you guys. all right beauty now and the wealth managers were looking at. people who were no managing this well for things that seems to be lost money and

the connections to these 263 companies so now joy in terms of you work the lead in a lot of questions our investigation started. on news that we questioned at the time we didn't think that it was fake news but as we've investigated it's become very clear that certain aspects of what the government was seeing regarding the medical equipment leasing scheme are indeed feet means. beauty is ahead of data she's a statistician and she's very very good at looking at data set and trying to extract meaning from that. security has been doing quite a bit of research looking into people who are we are calling wealth managers. well calling them wealth managers because at the time we weren't absolutely sure whether these people were conduits for corrupt proceeds all of the deeply but all that helped manage those corrupt networks i give would take would be what of if it

would be that all joy. is looking at what the impact of what the data is seeing is on the public so enjoy walt and find many other human stories that you'll see in the report. but i'm not sure what it did yeah i mean i think i would be blunt it would get you know i mean if that's the outlet i think it would look like if i do what. i did not what i did i do i don't you know. that's good and you know. what there's nothing you cannot do that i don't think i've. got the.

right now i'm walking on a story that he's focusing on the medical scheme that you know was introduced to the country by our government. isn't been a battle about this equipment because not very many of you quite sure how much has been spent so far. my responsibilities to work on a story that sure is a public service the truth is you know how king as i may be paying for something that they're not you know benefiting from. at times is so difficult to not to get emotionally attached for this particular story i have seen very desperate situations where someone is seeking but they come to they are for want of a little pain killers to be able to. relieve some of that. so

how can i give notice that here is a fine joke to reassess ok thank you linda allergic to all of this. for it's not living in your plan b. assigning me. going to work you. can say. cervical you require. you know telling the publishers will call me on a sunday hold on so i'm going to turn 22. also so the little difficulty in. america. number. one of them being the burn. could. turn to. didn't turn. on religion. is.

comes from amman. jordan. my mom's. going to. actually. yes and i. have yes there's a can you. can do. that do you mean it is to have it in beer so you can work with cancer and virgin atlantic doesn't this mean when you're saying i'm going to be argumentative and we have been really good you know exactly what didn't happen. did it up and down gas and ice and i knew but i mean a question. i must get back to.

get them both a q it. means. i can now take another look one of the but i got a good idea. when i was is that i'm glad i got mad. at. what to do is to establish whether. whether she's on one to find out if she's there and to find out how she gets to engage exactly these companies make let's take a tailored step process so the dictates of his opera by shipping terms like today

is then a big issue for each thought that there is there is an ethical issue with it but why we're navigating in this crazy because we already have the primo rushy every day and it's only about us from going up of a of the going to and how we couldn't do it every year i didn't get the information much as it feels internally on a confortable that you know you're going to be putting somebody on the sports next week that not essentially is organizing these rights or you don't want you're looking for the truth and the truth sometimes can be uncomfortable for people to reveal. and we might not like you for it in writing but i can guarantee you this case. i think you will make you for it but what we did we spent the last couple of months and in doing it is specifically who has been very fine but what we have been doing is true we're going to confirm it with the present was at the center of it but you'll be fine yeah so ok now let's think you have

a call from 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 have are scared and and i'm fucked in the boat or to me abit and i also feel. it is it tonight is what i'm doing is it. should they just go and just us go all the gory johns they really at their pretending. i feel i feel like i was just going to 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 we're seeing are going to kill us that a petition their double payments and this provision our own country that there must be a government official. effecting these is transactions. and them both never lie the biggest challenge is there is 3 to access that to the attack. days of course effort to make sure that that data is not accessible to their public. so that whenever there is provide bandied about something then we have something to counter that we have if we didn't but if you don't really have that information what else can you do tell me you find out even some of the journalist having to be part of the fic news as we know because there's not not access to the truth.

ok. you know being hit by gentlemen is in going into this nice kid to home. for a. while here so you're like a company secretary too many companies that if they can i have as many air networks as i inch or you look i was in the you know beating but i suspect that even bush was motherly she is very subjective exactly this is the 1st and but when you think only about what question. now we've gone from going to possibly zap us an operation from an office in town and that seems to be the person who's doing the business the

next step after this i'm after a big you know confirmations will be not going to give a way to respond saying we have you know look through this bit of we have seen major connected 160 i go up and i think if 100 know it in from the next guy it was you know about how bad. a bad person. i'm not certain how the next step is going to go but we have to get rid of response about what you're writing in our story so definitely they want to talk not we still have to go back and get her view about all of these facts that we have about her. 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 wording it really be fines the times that we live in with regard to and you know of course truth where anybody especially people with the kind of machinery to push out certain information coming out of millions of people believe in a lie when the truth is far different. today

without that before the alamo end of boy in our fond ways of death thinking about their questions that they want to ask end of a confirmations that i wanted to make and i was thinking how how does this go. which is the best way to get this information from my emad in i think you are. 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 gerund and quite unsure of how things will go. i feel like if it came out as african 10000 we were going to bring our this or that band-aid are not allowed and they still him doing these things. so i'm not sure

what provider think if they know such as my brother like me i was part of it for me to do their story and know that there's good and impact but i don't know and many were made i do know better but if. this is directing how are you today. and we were to meet this week. i think i didn't realize that sometimes i put it into something if you don't 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 the. no problem so see you tomorrow. now i think you. and i.

feed news and the use of false information has become somewhat of a primary pillar of governmental state strategy whenever they want to do something branding things off we can use a very effective to be because as long as you can continually discredit the media the public looks at stories and are like should i really trust this even know journalists i worked hard to try and verify the information. so it's the. journalists who do or see you the truth often get ostracized some journalists when it was even stories that would bring the government in a bad light would expose them i've 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 key to all of journalism. is that we publish was things that people don't want published even if it doesn't mean that we are scared because of the moment that citizens have the information that they require to lead their lives that's when positive change happens. they're going to this when. i came. to this. this is a very really good opportunity for me to use my skills for ones for humanity. trying. to get to the debt for

a number. grow just that it didn't give last time what i got you right now. so there's often a. project. in the investigation if. i feel the people mentioned in this doing it me me pretentiousness is together to create enough to punish us because because it touches on the failures of people in power. in the government competing with them.

you might not nor the person. you're doing this story for. a buck or something for him to do what and want to be about possible fine just to see funky. citizens are out there 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. for that want to take in all things nothing like that took so long lead to what colors of that. i feel it is their sacrifice i think one way.

when corruption if you do see this it may be near to the need to paint. i was burned up and having taken but in my own little way. when was the last time you were out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every love billboard layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on saying retention has to start from day one whether again you're in detention or you're incarcerated this is a dialogue everyone has a voice so far there are studies that support our coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for joining the global conversation amount is

iraq i thought this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of tanith realty and if you can give them the opportunity wonderful things start to happen sometimes the simplest situations are the most and packed far yet it is yeah yeah i think. the main thing is that sets out 0 apart from other news organizations is that a lot of our reporting is about real people not about ideas or politicians or what they may want to do but how policy and how events affect real people it's ok it's ok it's ok. a little more complicated operations probably if this is not an act of creation i'm going to move the office of the work you're doing here is amazing that there aren't so many fossils and it feels like this is just a dent what was your relationship with joe di normal or ok the suddenly becomes. this job isn't just about what's on a script or a piece of paper it's about what's happening right now. in the

stories generate thousands of headlines these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison days or me write stuff that the case separate the spin from the facts the western media jumps on stories without taking down the misinformation from the journalism it's about telling the stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on al-jazeera. an investigation of how foreign companies plunder africa's natural resources with trust is show important in the question of revealing how no maybe as officials demand cash in exchange for favors.