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Today in Focus

Guards at Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya accused of killings

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

An investigation by the Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative journalism has uncovered claims from villagers in Kenya of violence and even killings linked to guards on a Del Monte pineapple farm. Emily Dugan reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.8

Today, allegations of killings by guards

0:12.0

on one of the biggest pineapple farms in the world.

0:22.1

Before we start, a quick warning.

0:24.0

This episode contains descriptions of violence.

0:31.0

Can you tell me what you remember that night?

0:35.0

I know you have more than I'm worried about.

0:38.0

So I'm speaking for a translator

0:40.0

to a man I met near the town of Fika,

0:42.0

which is about an hour northeastern Nairobi.

0:45.0

Emily Degan is a senior reporter with the Guardian.

0:48.0

And for the past few months,

0:50.0

she's been working on a story with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

0:53.0

So, one night in August last year,

0:56.0

he was doing something that a lot of men in the area do.

0:59.0

He was going to steal pineapples from a huge farm

1:02.0

that dominates the local area.

1:12.0

In groups at night, men make their way into the plantation

1:15.0

and they harvest pineapples, carry them off in sacks

1:18.0

and then go and sell them on the highways.

1:21.0

In his group that night was a 22-year-old man

1:24.0

called Stephen Fueh-Noyke.

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