Sometimes in October 2018, John Allan Namu’s media company Africa Uncensored released an investigative piece ‘The Profiteers’ which highlighted how South Sudan’s ruling elite plunder their country’s resources and fuel conflict while living in comfort in neighboring countries like Kenya.
KTN refused to air Namu’s exposé demanding that the documentary should be edited to cut out some sections as they sought for comment from an adversely mentioned person in the story.
Even though KTN refused to air the investigative piece, Namu now has the last laugh as his exposé has won a major international award.
Namu was feted at the Global Investigative Journalists Network’s Global Shining Light Award courtesy of his explosive documentary that KTN refused to air.
The award is presented after every two years, it honors investigative journalism in a developing or transitioning country, done under threat, duress, or in the direst of conditions.
Global Investigative Journalists Network’s Global Shining Light Award comes with an honorary plaque, US $2,000/Ksh 200,000 and a trip to the 2019 Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Hamburg to accept the award in front of hundreds of their colleagues from around the world.
