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🗓️ 15 April 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Pete Murimi has stumbled upon a horrifying hypothesis - that people are snatching children from the streets of Nairobi, Kenya. Now he is working for BBC Africa Eye and is on the trail. Working with Njeri Mwangi Marc Perkins (Editor) and Tom Watson (Exec), this is how the BBC investigations team exposed a shocking tale.
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BBC The Baby Stealers https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p08yjy5r/africa-eye-africa-eye-the-baby-stealers
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0:34.6 | Jerry is following a woman through shadowy back streets in a sketchy area of Nairobi. |
0:41.3 | She's nervous, trying to stay in character as the woman asks suspicious questions. |
0:47.8 | In London, Pete is waiting anxiously. |
0:51.3 | The plan was all laid out, but things could still go awry. |
0:56.4 | Jerry is only thinking of one thing. |
0:59.4 | Will the baby be there? |
1:01.3 | Will they be in time to save her? |
1:04.6 | But the story doesn't begin here. |
1:08.4 | I'm Maitlandigan, and we start, as always, with the tip of. |
1:25.7 | My name is Peter Muramey. I'm a producer--director and at the moment I'm talking to you from London. |
1:33.3 | Pete is an experienced journalist and documentary producer. He's worked on all kinds of things, |
1:38.6 | including programs for Africa Eye, a BBC series that produces hard-hitting investigations from across the African continent. |
1:47.3 | Pete is originally from Kenya, and he has lots of contacts there. |
1:51.5 | So when it came to pitching story ideas to the BBC editors, he had one investigation in mind. |
1:57.6 | It had come to him from a Kenyan journalist he knew, called Judith. |
2:01.6 | She told me that there's so many homeless mothers who were complaining that children are disappearing. |
2:07.1 | They didn't know where these children are going, but the fact was people were snatching the children from them, especially when they were asleep. |
2:14.6 | It was a shocking concept. Children of homeless mothers snatched away from them. |
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