A BBC documentary on Child Sex Trafficking in Kenya has been faked the country’s interior minister Kipchumba Murkomen has revealed.
The documentary ‘Madams Exposing Kenya’s Sex Trade’ featured actors who were were promised substantial payments and lifestyle benefits and trips to the UK, the Minister declared.
Speaking to the Kenyan parliament on Wednesday Murkomen said that his ministry had carried out investigations which resulted in four women disclosing that the Beeb had contacted them to allegedly seek out young, vulnerable girls between the ages of 17 and 21 to feature on the program they were making about the child sex industry near the tourist resorts in Kenya.
When asked about the girls featured in the documentary Murkomen said that they were all linked to each other and that the information provided to the BBC was knowingly falsified
“Investigations reveal that the BBC primarily sought underage girls involved in sex work. However, some of the girls who testified allegedly falsified their age to qualify for the sponsorship,” Murkoment noted.
Murkomen disclosed that two women featured in the documentary as child traffickers were reportedly promised significant sums of money and had since relocated to other parts of the East African country.
Murkomen further said that the exposé should be considered as fake, as the witnesses interviewed were not underage as purported in the documentary.
A source from a Kenyan woman’s league in Nairobi said: ” We heard that they were here to do a documentary but we were not sure of what was going on. They did not have to do that as there are many people who would have contributed to this documentary just to be on UK TV.”