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Murkomen: BBC documentary on child sex trafficking was a hoax

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen.[Elvis Ogina,Standard]

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has alleged that a recent BBC documentary on sex trafficking of underage girls in Mai Mahiu was a hoax.

Speaking at the National Assembly’s plenary session, the CS said that four people who appeared in the documentary told police that the BBC team had asked them to identify vulnerable girls for the film.

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