The BBC defends the documentary Eye Africa on the Kenya sex-sex trade after the claims of “hoax”

The BBC defended its investigation into the sexual exploitation of children in Kenya, after the government described it as a “hoax”.

Speaking on Wednesday in Parliament, the Minister of the Interior, Kipchumba Murkomen, described the documentary as “false because the people interviewed were not minor”.

Murkomen added that the victims interviewed by BBC Africa Eye “pretended to be children.”

The BBC says that the documentary was clear that the people interviewed were adults telling “experiences of abuse that occurred when they were minors”.

The broadcaster added that the Africa Eye Investigation was “important journalism of public interest”.

Mr. Murkomen also alleged that the BBC had promised a “financial reward” to contributors.

The declaration of the broadcaster stressed that the victims were not offered any financial incentive to share their history.

“For more clarity, none of the contributors presented in this film has been paid, offered a payment or” trained “in any way.”

The press release added that the BBC had given evidence of the Kenyane police in March this year.

The BBC has followed many times to ensure that children at risk would be protected. Images of two exposed women were shown to the authorities in April.

The BBC has been informed by the police that measures would be taken, in particular to save children.

In Mr. Murkomen’s speech in the Parliament, he defended the Kenyan government’s file on the protection of children, saying that he has taken cases of miners’ traffic “seriously”.

There have also been criticisms from the President of the National Assembly Moses Wetang’ula, who declared that the objective of the documentary was to “Discover” Kenya.

The BBC survey, which has been published on August 4 and has so far received more than a million views of Youtube, details cases of minor girls as young as 13 who were treated for sex in the transit city of Maai Mahiu in the Kenya valley.

Two different women have been shown by admitting the slave trade knowingly and illegally minor girls for sex.

The BBC images caught a woman, who is called Nyambura, laughing, saying: “They are still children, so it’s easy to handle them by simply giving them candies.

“Prostitution is a rent harvest in Maai Mahiu; the truckers feed it essentially. And that is how we benefit from it. It was standardized at Maai Mahiu,” said the woman, adding that she was as young as 13 years old, who has already worked “for six months.

The film identified the authors of crimes against children as well as the victims who needed urgent assistance.

Following the documentary, the Director of Public Prosecutions Office told the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to investigate the issue.

The BBC stressed that the survivors of the abuses who contributed to the film were interviewed at length by investigators from the Kenya Criminal Investigations Department without legal representation.

The BBC confirmed that none of the survivors interviewed was involved in the secret investigation itself.

The two exposed women were not apprehended. Mr. Murkomen said they had not been found.