From my good to get back more on our for. Our for part of. A move. Over. There because of it is theres. Something jennys telling. A dramatic twist in the case of jailed auto executive carlos ghosn the former chairman of one of the worlds most powerful car makers nissan red no has fled house arrest in japan where he was heading toward trial for financial misconduct says he fled to quote escape injustice. Also on the show can electric vehicle. Electrify africa will take a look at a Pilot Project in rwanda and the challenges carmakers face on the continent. And kenya has too much team a better harvest has driven prices down leaving growers scrambling to find alternatives. Welcome to business africa im Stephen Beard same berlin its good to have you with us the saga of carlos go the auto executive turned jail inmate has taken another twist the former Nissan Renaud chairman has fled japan where he faced trial on charges of underreporting his income and financial misconduct go landed in beirut on monday on a private plane sparking consternation japan and prompting cheers in lebannon go on said that he wasnt fleeing justice but escaping in justice. This is the house in beirut where carlos cone is believed to have fled but there is no sign of him and the security guards outside say hes not here but a neighbor is shown up wanting to welcome him to lebanon with a card. Many lebanese few the former niece and c. E. O. s a successful businessman and is a symbol of their countrys large diaspora but in tokyo the unexpected turn of events has sparked outrage. From like him i think he fled because he did something wrong. But whoever escapes wins you know i and many people with money. Goans main lawyer says he heard about his clients flight via media his entire defense team has lost face in japan as they repeatedly said there was no risk that going would run away. We were gone completely by surprise im dumbfounded personally i dont yet even know how to make contact with him. Going to skate to lebanon as the latest stunning twist in a roller coaster journey that saw him fall from boardroom to detention center. Here he spent more than 100. 00 days in spartan conditions far removed from his sometimes extravagant lifestyle the automotive tycoon stands accused of underreporting is salary to the tune of 85000000. 00 prosecutors also allege he skimmed off millions of dollars from the company for his personal use. Go on has repeatedly denied all accusations in a statement the 65 year old said the Japanese Justice system was quote righ and that he escaped injustice japan does not have an extradition treaty with lebanon so its unclear what steps tokyo might take next. There earlier we asked michael pitt president of the shin gets a news agency in tokyo what meant when he accused japan of having a rigged justice system. Well actually lot of people agree with that outside of the Japanese Justice system its been criticized by International Organizations and many others so for example in goans case you know when he was accused from that the very 1st moment he learned about it he had arrived in the country on a plane and prosecutors immediately took him into custody and they subjected him to about 4 months of. Interrogation where he wasnt able to speak to the media he wasnt able to talk give his own side when the interrogators interrogate him theres no lawyer present you know theres many profound. Questionable elements to the Japanese Justice system where essentially once youre caught up in it youre almost certain to be found guilty especially if you are indicted as he was and and once youre indicted the statistics speak for themselves you have a 99 percent chance of being found guilty and thats what going is facing and thats what hes speaking about when he said it was a presumption of guilt and a system of justice. And that was michael pin with you she gets the news agency in tokyo speaking with us earlier today. Electric cars electrify africa wagon has expanded its Car Sharing Program in rwandas capital kigali with 50 new electric cars another German Company engineering giant siemens has set up the charging stations that will power the eco offs take a look. Gollies excellent roads are just one sign of the economic boom the country has been enjoying over the past few years with growth rates over 7 percent germanys folks sees a growing market for car sharing especially electric cars most of the fuel that is sold in africa is of up to quality so modern engines council live on it so electric mobility would actually you know go beyond that you dont really need to know over the electricity comes from runs fine on any kind of electricity at the same time you know one thing we have in africa is lots of sun lots of Renewable Energy that one can implement a so it i think it makes sense in 2018 v. W. Opened a plant in kigali adding to the german carmakers 3 factories in other Southern African countries so far theyve only produced small numbers of vehicles but africa boss Thomas Shaffer says he would like to expand production even though the demand isnt really there yet but that could soon change thanks to the African Free Trade Agreement which 54 countries signed in july a if we were to be able to Work Together regionally as a 1st step say in the east african community. Say that kenya. Burundi and uganda would find a way of sharing the value chain similar like the us model. And with that dennett competing with each other from simple example kenya to one type of eco passenger cars tanzania commercial vehicles rhonda electric costs software. Whatever and then use it within the free trade zone you could scale the business so every investment would make sense he says v. W. Quickly came to learn that the key to success in africa is working closely with local experts an example is the mobility upmove that v. W. Uses to coordinate its rental fleet in kigali local developers programmed it to work with the often modest allowances of mobile users here tailor made Software Like this would be next to impossible to get in europe or asia. This reporter japonica bailey who has been looking into the story for us and he joins me now in studio to ponder good to have you here electric ride sharing car Ride Sharing Program in rwanda is this a novelty or is this a long Term Solution for the city well thats something that folks in hopes to find out that they actually doing this is of his ability study so they want to see what happens on the ground the study that they are carrying out this test that theyre carrying out is actually not open to the wider public its only open to companies and its not to everyone says like i could just go to rwanda and hope that i can just you know arrive at the airport and book myself an electric cab to take me around the studio something what why rwanda i mean there are plenty of i mean i would think maybe south africa kenya i mean why rwanda well rwanda is of course one of the Fastest Growing economies in africa so africa stagnated last couple of years on the you know with the part about their struggles with a colony so rwanda is a good place to be economically speaking its stable politically its also not a very very big market so that also allows them to maybe test a product and see how it works out and its quite unclear whether theyll be expanding this in terms of scale ability of course theyre probably waiting to see the results for themselves and like they said in terms of demand for electric cars we heard that in the report there is not much of a demand for electricity bills in africa so this is on that way to be smitten with ride sharing as an option and speaking to that how feasible is electric mobility in africa its not very feasible we are obviously always reporting in a lot about the problems power issues in a lot of countries i mean one that we havent reported too much about it theres only like 50 percent of the population having access to electricity in rwanda itself you know if you look at places even industrialized countries like the most industrialized country in Africa South Africa also has its own Energy Issues so i dont know it would be really hard a good example is like little mosque actually you know comes from the south africa itself in. Its less law in south africa he tweeted about this in august he said the reason of course is not really thinks of course just with a twist it also important duties of electric cars in general so theres so many hurdles as electricity and theres duties on foreign vehicles and thats the major issue for markets like south africa for instance what would be the 1st step to changing that if you could say dissuade be the key steps are really starting that whole process of the mobility then as infrastructure on one side and then theres also the regular Regulatory Framework and those are 2 things that need to come together so the governments need to be working on improving infrastructure and they also need to be working on changing regulation and maybe allowing cars to come in more cheaply for instance and also building the infrastructure that is needed for this europe has a problem with this i dont know whether africa is really ready to tackle this problem as fast as we would like to hope it will be interesting to watch what happens with the project and run for instance its a good point something were struggling to figure out here in europe and elsewhere business to ponder with us in studio thank you very much kenyan t. Prices dropped at one point this year by over 30 percent thats the lowest level in 5 years and its mostly because of oversupply and weakening demand in key export markets so now ti farmers are beginning to experiment with other varieties and more traditional project production methods in a bid to find those elusive new markets most of the tea produced in kenya looks like this its called crush tear curl because the long leaves are broken down into tiny tea grains which are most suited to teabags the product is critical to kenyas economy she is a top source of Foreign Exchange and according to the Kenya Tea Development agency one out of every 10 kenyans depend upon tea for a living. But farmers now produce way more than their key customers like britain demand so theyre scrambling to come up with other varieties which are more appealing to tea drinkers in other markets and we all know trying to diversify to offer the type that sri lanka produces now that both of those. New markets such as you know russia and those other. Still these orthodox teas are a big challenge for most kenyan producers who have become World Leaders in black tea exports and experts in the crushed hair curl process so far only a handful of companies are making the transition to hold the production in kenya but it allows farmers to produce custom teas with more subtle tasting coloring and that brings higher prices. And thats it for me and the Business Team here in berlin you can find out more about these and other business stories online at www dot com slash business and find us on facebook and twitter as always thanks for joining us and happy and healthy new year. To do a female rather. More and more women in the indian state of maharashtra are becoming lawn tennis. In modern undertaking a sustainable approach to around. For the environment and their family see. Next on g. W. In the height of climate change. For cosmic see. Whats in store. For the future. 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