Journalists Condemn Swaleh Mdoe, Mwanahamisi Hamadi And Their Colleagues Over Corruption

Ghafla Kenya exclusively reported a week ago that two of Citizen TV’s top Swahili anchors, Swaleh Mdoe and Mwanahamisi Hamadi alongside several others had been suspended by the station’s management following corruption allegations.

Since the revelation, the story has since gone viral, with many wondering why journalists of such caliber could stoop that low to get brown envelops to kill a negative story about a politician.

And now journalists have come out to condemn the corruption allegations leveled against Swaleh and his colleaugues terming it a great disrepute to the profession.

Speaking on NTV’s Press Pass, journalists among them Capital FM’s Eric Latiff, journalist-turned-politician Naisula Lesuuda, activist Boniface Mwangi and the host of the show Ken Mijungu condemned the act of corruption in the strongest terms possible.

They wondered what could tempt a journalist of Swaleh Mdoe’s stature to receive a brown envelope to kill a story.

While Boniface Mwangi argued that journalists are normally paid poorly, Latiff and Lesuuda argued that that cannot be a justification for compromisisng journalistic code of conduct.

“Journalists should not take bribes at all costs,” Latiff said. Lesuuda backed his sentiment.

Swaleh Mdoe, Mwanahamisi Hamadi, Sishia Wasilwa, and others are suspended for 10 days as investigations into allegations that they received a bribe from a prominent politician to kill a negative story about him surfaced.

Here is what they said: