Mohammed Ali reveals the hottest exposé he did that made him flee to Germany due to real death threats
Mohammed Ali stepped on many people’s toes when he was still an investigative journalist working for KTN. Jicho Pevu earned Ali enemies that were keen to assassinate him.
The most eminent death threats came when he dropped the exposé on Track It company. He rejected 1 million bribe to ran the story putting his life in danger.
Speaking to Nairobian, Ali revealed that he was forced to flee to Germany because Track It investors were out to finish him after he exposed their scam.
“Our exposé on how Track It company was conning motorists had Namu and I flee to Germany for several weeks. The company, with offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa, collapsed and investors wanted us dead. Paruwanja la Mihadarati is another story that forced Onsarigo and I to run to Norway. But in our assignments, we were cautious,” Mohammed Ali opened up.
The former KTN journalist also addressed the issue of prejudice, he was accused many times of being biased especially in Muslim related exposés
“When doing stories, I focused on every wrong irrespective of religion, tribe or race. I ran stories on the killing of Jacob Juma, lawyer Willy Kimani, Erastus Kirui Chemorei and all was well.
But when I did the stories on Westgate mall attack and killing of Sheik Aboud Rogo, I was branded unpatriotic, sympathiser of terrorists and some State officials wanted me arrested.”
