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Got a journalist on last hour email on us is the most renowned investigative journalist on the continent of africa and with good reason since starting his korea twenty years ago he has exposed corrupt Police Judges employers and government officials he has caught criminals in the act he has rescued traffic children his motto is a name shame and jail so up to the people his journalism as a sposed have found themselves behind bars that makes what he does a Risky Business there have been threats against his life he travels with a place escort and a bodyguard and has worn a whole series of disguises over the years and thats a reality is with us now welcome us and joining us today is a panel of Young African journalists with questions and comments for us with us from accra ghana b. S. C. Though is a contributing writer at towards africa and Lagos Nigeria were joined by festus i are up and in boston massachusetts erica e. C. Is a get me an american journalist welcome to the stream everyone i want to start with a tweet we got from a member of our community when they heard that he would be on the show and us a lesson on twitter says he is our wiki leaks we love you and us now this is a good Reference Point for those who may not be familiar with your work but tell us how did you get started in the world of investigative journalism. Journalism as a print journalist and as i kept on moving up i realized that there was the need to define what exactly i do to be more impactful to society. Strong to undercover journalism there thats what ive done ever since i did so because i felt that it had a more Lasting Impact on society and it helped that was the development of society so people watching right now they just switched on aljazeera youre watching a really well known gunmen undercover journalist have a look at him right now because it is an extraordinary sight and as we have to address this idea of you disguising yourself when did this starts well i guess as the work continued and we dived into many of the big stories and security implications became real to me and my team or its needed to come out with some form of these guys that will ensure that you are alive to do the next story stories with the life of their reporter so we came. Decided to get this these guys and so its beats that i wear and the hats and i do this purely because of security reasons to ensure that i can live to tell the next story did you realize its extremely i catch in an incredibly dramatic i i want to show how you did your ted talk to have a look here my laptop what you are not obviously but for our audience so theres a lot cables red and white cables and then another one that i shared just a little while ago a whole series of different looks im just wondering if you really capitalize on this ad strawman it creates a name for yourself and its almost taken off beyond the work. Well the work we do is not about drama its about realities of society i mean if youve read their stories that have their real stories that affect human life and whove got good meaning to serious situations where we nearly lost our lives and i dont talk for only myself i also talk for the other african journalists and i can tell you that if we say we are under threat its not a joke they have been every single day and not been every single day and those who could not take precautions have died many african journalists who have died as a result of picking up their mantle to tell their story and if there is anything you can do you can only do it when you have a life but theres no point in doing anything after your death we have found this as this even if i took all of this particular mask their face you see is not the fees that you see whenever im working weve gone into the use of food statics and i this just to ensure that we can live to tell the next story but even though with the mask for prosthetics or the blurring of the face you have fans out here who are also journalists many of them young who are still worried about your safety doing the things that you do exposing the people you expose weve got to be a common problem do you also men out of malaysia and this is what she asked i my name is just id like to applaud janice for your courage and youre an inspiration to many of us young journalists to practice ethical pointing my question to you is when youre covering a dangerous story how do you manage to protect yourself and your family from direct threats made by people who know you and who go to Great Lengths to not be exposed honest. Well i think the key thing about my journalism the three principle that i look at is naming shaming jailing traditionally journalists would want to just work and then publish my stories are not meant for people to read in their bedrooms and and relax my stories to have Immediate Impact sending that bad guy to jail thats where i get my security from theres nothing confusing or even done doing a story and finding the same bad guys on the same street with you so if we talk of security security means that i do my story very well i got out there hard core evidence ill go to the court of law testify in a show that bad guy goes behind the bass if i kept that guy walking on the streets he is more of a bigger danger to me and my team than anything else so yes if i look at security how to keep their family how to keep friends they key effect i look for is to ensure that whatever i do is good enough i got out the hard core evidence and i am able to present it to the court of law and through a prosecutor that pays in goes to jail there is nothing more comfortable than doing that one impact it is important ones that story is able to save human lives one of the story is the impact on the lives of those children on those streets of those poor people then i get my satisfaction thats why i get this security front. Erica there will be many people today who will be watching on us for the first time just understanding and appreciating his way. As a journalist he knows hes how would you describe his impact. I think impact is seen and the results of his work when you watch that piece and when you read a piece and theres direct follow up in the case with the children in a video clip at the washington beginning with we watch the arrest and then also in the case with the judges and with some of them being disbarred so i think when you see results in his journalism thats when you know he is a fact and i do have a question bring him back to the beginning when i started his career you said that you started out in print and now youre in the digital age and youre doing video can you talk to me about does that have another impact in your storytelling bryces reading and now people are able to press play and watch it. Well it does it does you see it its only introduces multimedia to me because to be a really good journalist if you can make use of read you you make use of television and print at the same time thats what is the trend you cannot just specialize in one youve got to be able to have all those skills so i think the print yes i was a bit slow in getting into television but today i can say ive gradually lent and when i combine these three fact this impact much more if we are breaking a story we are thinking about the print angle were also thinking about the t. V. Angle we are thinking about radio we are thinking online and does should be the way forward in order to be able to disseminate the information to all villages and communities we need to embrace all three so i would see that my background has really shaped me to be able to embrace all these three factors lets talk about some of your work and show some of your. Film an Investigation Called nigeria babies really. Honest can you just give us an introduction sentence i want to play a little clip from not investigation but tell us what to look into the story what was the story that you went. Well baby factories where is a story where will we identified some people who made the our business to come Young Young Young girls. Force them into pregnancy they make babies and then they sell their babies as much as some two hundred dollars and hundred dollars and all that it wont simply baby factories and the rights of this little girls who have been abused to give where they never see the child so the aim of this story was to go out there and buy these babies and thats exactly the purpose we achieved and also when looked at the punitive side where theres girls who engage in that were all arrested lets take a look nigerias baby pharmacist at goodwood the secret camera we will visit private clinics and often it is to find out how easy it is to buy illegally with no questions axed yeah this is child of an age when we are amazed to discover how one employee would offer to sell as despite the evident ill health. Is willin to register as for a baby in to broker a deal. Or. So i guess when our community sees little clips like bad of your work we get comments like this this is you tube live your hands how do you get to contact all of these officials without your name and your face to be known so take us behind the background reporting on how you embed yourselves into these stories. Dont work alone i work with a team and saw before we get into an historic proper recchi will be done when i say rick i mean reconnaissance we spend a lot of time doing research before we get to the bones of it because my journalism is about hard core evidence and i dont want a situation where i get sued in a court of law and i get to lose the case so we spend a lot of time in making sure that we get these facts right before we move in and i think that the key thing for every journalist is to be to ensure that your research teach is properly done whenever this is done you are not scared getting into the Community Also we must not make a mistake of getting one targets usually you have multiple ones you work on both and definitely some will come up well festus is with us from Lagos Nigeria first is when you try to do journalism in nigeria on the continent its really really tough what do you want someone as experienced as on us about the way he works. Good relieve me from leaguers and i enjoy. My space with the Fourth Amendment and as of last conference in about an engineer. On my space i believe we walked. Right. This kind of goes up to every story and he explained in. Contrast in one go your life that this kind of journalism we only see it in and year. Because. Even at the end of the we end up. Not unhappily just and nobody takes it from there just. That the motto of a nice we just need to see him and. We dont see such an injury. Nobody nobody goes to jail so i think this kind of this kind of journalism that spread disease should be also entrenching. African countries. Of johnnies in this. Just buffy. Not in the country. I do thing that happens is least i recall the fairy story i did when i was investigating i did a story called. And two hundred sixty people where i stand i was in a brothel and i had got evidence for three months the police did a big bass two hundred and sixty people arrested and i went home that night very happy only to get up the next morning and all of them were released im trying to say that this is dont come easy. It takes time for your Security Systems to recognize the work you do so lets not feel that it doesnt work lets knock that dos when you do it one two three to four to us to see those things with you and you do do the best to help you see it no one can help you define the problems you have done yourself it is us on the african continent who can properly define or problems we have so first lets keep knocking on the doors and lets keep pushing the francis of our democracy if we do that one day somebody is going to recognize you and hes going to make sure that whatever you do do push it to that level because look which Legal Institution or Police Administration doesnt feed on evidence every day is key and we are looking for the better of society if you have evidence today and nobody minds you to morrow if you have it somebody will mind you but the first is that let us look for evidence hard core evidence that is important in the prosecution or in dealing with these bad guys in our society is not easy but weve got to push the frontiers so i want i want to raise two points with you that were getting from our Community Members this is me badger in twitter who says in twenty fifteen he was accused by don is now special prosecutor martin i mean do as being an Anti Corruption per new or its a made up word there mr armey do at the time alluded that his work in exposing corruption and on and support and judiciary was commissioned and possibly paid for by the president beyond the naming shaming and jailing of corrupt officials does he you on us have financial motives for doing what he does for you answer that honest we also got some questions on criticism of your work via video comments along the same beings as that tweet this is eugene and this is what he asked. When you say you know me. Your critics are questioning your style of government every day and for stories but i want to ask if there are financial motives the other hand you have someone saying people are criticizing your motives why havent you changed let me go to uncle mike tsunami deuce statement and today hes a special prosecutor for ghana and when he was being vetted you would hear what he said about me the good thing i would add to all of us is that we all fight against corruption and we all we basically do the same thing and we have sat down and looked at the books and i should warn people in ghana theyre corrupt officials if you havent come out in sitting on the scene and im collaborating with him then thats really going to be heat on those core of the fish ussing than we have. Spoken we have looked at the differences we have looked at the books and i can only assure all those skeptics. People that if its about the two of us we would definitely get together to ensure that the bad guys go to jail now let me come to my critics i think first of all its fair to criticise that kind of journalism i practice i have tried and tested it. And it works look i am not going to sit down for anybody in an Ivy League School to predict or to tell me how to do my journalism im a product of my society and i do what suits my society i have chosen to name shame in jail i know that it doesnt work in maybe the u. S. Or do you but tell me the u. K. Is not my community i know my village i know that they dont have my bone water i know that they dont have decent food so if i pick a story in my village i sure that bad guy who is sticking does away from my people who do be an american would do it differently thats his business honest as to what a lot of these how to look there are consequences to this and i was just recently you can see here on my laptop justice which is an investigation into corruption in the judiciary in ghana theres one point in this investigation where you bribe a judge just before hes about to make a decision on an alleged rapist that man that the judge has to bribe that man goes free there are consequences to your approach to your methodology that may also be detrimental incidences what happened to that man what happened that community didnt go on to do anything else other hardly other violence what Quincy Quincy is not going to do i mean edge of the season money and theres a critique about the judge taking money to free somebody hes not supposed to free how did how can this happen where are these judges look my work has been telling on many grounds is to judicial scrutiny im a lawyer myself i look at the laws very well before i make a move on in the peasant book that i missed six mafia they are in jail for. Sixteen years all put together the story i did about him and i can see argument hes in jail for fifteen years i did that one too about the customs before we were in jail for sixteen years so i have tried and tested my method look i open myself up when i do my work for proper criticism my work stands the test of judicial or time because who does work who does journalism in the world and allow lawyers across as i mean him. In the court of law allows lawyers sometimes six seven lawyers as i mean me on their facts i am saying that what i publish is not is not let anybody who thinks he has contrary evidence to what i have gathered with my hidden camera come and challenge me how come on aljazeera or doing under cover on c. N. N. Or the b. B. C. Is ok but do remember color in africa is not outcome yeah well it is the civil right over same cameras we use and i hear you i just want to make sure i get quality in cause i know that youve been supporting young journalists very much as youve been doing your what i just mean looking at your twitter profile here Solutions Focused journalism activists in human rights feminism from ghana with love youve been listening to. Is an activist way whats the one question you really want to get out of him they want to answer the question i want to ask you what is he doing to ensure the future. After hes long gone retire and what. Is the housing on that knowledge and the experience that he has so the next generation of across africa. Well i think that its all boils down to training it was down to having p four stadium value and weve been doing that i mean im sure some of your people would see that weve gone to nigeria we are doing a little bit in tanzania we are doing something in south africa to get african journalists together. Groups that weve joined to ensure that whenever we get that opportunity we have a support so that tiger i foundation has a support from Macarthur Foundation where we are able to train some of these generalist and to impact them with the necessary skills that they deserve to do result and Development Journalism journalism that is based on hard core evidence and weve been doing that. Its been a pleasure having you and kwesi and erica and festus thank you for being part of our conversation. Has been going down online going underground sometimes is the way forward. For your work trust me in the world loves you. 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