Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has claimed that the BBC Eye documentary on a child sex trafficking ring in Maai Mahiu, known as "MADAMS: Exposing Kenya's Child Sex Trade, might be flawed, adding that subjects interviewed in the piece were promised substantial payments and lifestyle benefits to be featured.
Murkomen said during a Wednesday, August 13, appearance before Parliament that the ministry's post-exposure investigations resulted in four women disclosing that the British media outlet had contacted them to allegedly seek out young, vulnerable girls between the ages of 17 and 21 for a fictitious foreign sponsorship programme.
While questioning the legitimacy of the underage girls featured in the documentary, Murkomen noted that their investigations revealed that the witnesses in the documentary were linked to each other, a sign that the information provided to the BBC might have been falsified.
He detailed that the sex workers interviewed had, in some instances, even involved their relatives in the arrangement, perhaps after learning of monetary rewards.
