@KTNNews promised to publish #TheProfiteers tonight. They will not. WE, @afuncensored ,WILL. A THREAD.
Let me start by saying that I have profound respect for many of the journalists and editors at @KTNNews. So it was indeed a shock when I learnt earlier today that @KTNNews decided not to run the story as promised and promoted. #TheProfiteers
They were largely happy with the story, but wanted to remove certain parts of it as they sought comment from an adversely mentioned person. We disagreed, given that we had already sought fair comment from this person. @KTNNews #TheProfiteers
So we differ with the decision by @KTNNews to hold the story, but we respect it. They have their platform, and we have ours. We feel that we have met the threshold for it to be seen by the public, and for the public to judge it on its own merit. #TheProfiteers
We have worked hard on this story, and have one motive. To finally see accountability from EAST AFRICA for the crimes committed against ordinary South Sudanese citizens. 382,000 people died in just five years there. For context, that's all the people in Kibra #TheProfiteers
I know that this move may mean that fewer people get to see the story. That doesn't matter to me. What matters is that we are not held back by the machinations of the elite, and their creeping influence in the media. #TheProfiteers
I hope that @KTNNews will run this story as they had promised you they would. We made a promise to you too. So here's our story: #TheProfiteers
