A year long investigation by BBC Africa Eye has uncovered damning evidence of a thriving underground network in Kenya that snatches babies from their mothers and sells them for a profit. The secretive and highly lucrative trade preys on the country’s most vulnerable, stealing children from the streets and even the maternity ward of a major government hospital. Njeri Mwangi reports from Nairobi.
Bibi ya boni mwangi ni jinga, how do you stumble upon a kidnapped child kwa nairobi streets and set up a sting operation for the next day. Shouldve rescued the child there and then.
That was very incompetent. Yaani a whole BBC journalist and a group of policemen 100% decided to trust a baby trafficker and take her word. Ati acha niende nikuje! Why couldnt the cops tail her atleast waone penye ameficha mtoi, who her accomplices are, etc.
Why couldnt they get her phone number and trace her? Since walijua watoto ni hot cake why couldn’t they have alternative ‘fake’ buyers whereby the main journalist offers 80K, a second journalist offers 150K, a 3rd journalist offers 300K, etc. This means that they have a chance to keep the lady busy and ensure no outside buyer gets to buy the kid.
I also feel that the whole documentary was rushed. They could have followed up with the Mama Lucy case until waone what happens to the guy who worked there, they could have also followed up on the rest of the child traffickers by reporting them to police, NGOs, child welfare, etc. Only when there is some definite result would they then release the documentary.
Otherwise non of the child traffickers in the documentary faced any consequences for their actions. The only lesson learnt is that baby trafficking is a very lucrative business and that you cannot be easily caught.
What a disgrace… Kenyan parents cant even protect their own children.
Everyone’s a critic.