July 6, 2024
Sex Crimes

Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea – BBC Africa Eye documentary



A joint investigation between BBC Africa Eye and Panorama has uncovered widespread sexual abuse on farms which supply some of the UK’s most popular tea brands including PG Tips, Lipton and Sainsbury’s Red Label. Women in Kenya say they’ve been forced into sex by their managers while working on plantations which have been owned for decades by two British companies.

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Credit List:

Reporter and Producer – Tom Odula
Executive Produced, Directed and Filmed by – Seamus Mirodan
Film Editor – John Moratiel
Assistant Producer and Second Camera – Edwin Miyoshi
Undercover Back-Up Team – Bondo Rogers, Fred Ooko, Joseph Rop
Undercover Producers – Kassim Mohammed, Frank Odwesso, Wanjiru Njuguna, Norma Achieng
Production Manager – Simon Frost
Production Coordinator – Izzy Fleming, Charlotte Fraser
Social Media Producer – Anusha Kumar
Digital Producer – Tamasin Ford
Impact Producer – Courtney Bembridge
Reversioning Producer – Izzy Fleming
Digital Technician – David Smith
Online Editor – Chris Stott
Graphics – James Mobbs
Colourist – Boyd Nagle
Dubbing Mixer – Jez Spencer
Field Producer – Cathy Muema
Location Producers – George Sayagie, Nico Tanui
Translators – Jeanne Mogusu, Wanjiru Gachau, Tina Robi
Counsellor – Jane Awuor
Special Thanks – Amua Mama Initiative
Africa Eye Editor – Tom Watson

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28 Comments

  • @BBCAfrica June 29, 2024

    🚨UPDATE 22/02: Police in Kenya have been ordered to open an investigation over allegations of sexual abuse, made in a BBC documentary, at tea plantations which supply some of the biggest British brands. 📖 https://bbc.in/3XV355e

  • @melindaachieng7492 June 29, 2024

    Do you know they have just elected that disguisting man John Chebochok as the director for Ainomoi Tea Zone… they guy should be rotting in prison!!!!! My country is just an embarrassment🚮

  • @kakuchepkirui4861 June 29, 2024

    Hi…can anyone assit me with the contacys of Tom Odula…would like to reach him out regarding a petition we are intentinding to file against Chebochok

  • @Faith-mx5zz June 29, 2024

    This manager has been elected into office again!!!!!

  • @jennynjambi8002 June 29, 2024

    John Chebochok one of the sexual predators captured in this documentary preying on women looking for employment just won the Seat for Director, Ainamoi Zone.

    My heart is heavy, really heavy.

  • @MambaSSG June 29, 2024

    sadly he just got elected to be director in ainamoi..I cry for my country

  • @eunice4649 June 29, 2024

    How is this guy still in office, actually got a higher level

  • @rigamortice June 29, 2024

    BBC so it may not be true, once a liar always a liar

  • @artandtravel60 June 29, 2024

    corruption and no law, I won't buy nepton tea from now on.

  • @user-kt4en7vo2x June 29, 2024

    So sad! May Allah punish them for their wrongdoings. In Sha Allah

  • @vickynne June 29, 2024

    The guy ''Chebochok'' is running for Kenya Tea Development Agency(KTDA) Director seat elections to be held on 28th June

  • This is sad😢

  • @Ramsworldwidevolg June 29, 2024

    I never use Lipton tea nor go to Starbucks…in Malaysia…the people boycott them😂

  • @NathanRodgers-wz8jc June 29, 2024

    No good

  • @bimalmondal8303 June 29, 2024

    If the top level officers or managers of multinational tea companies belonging to women. this problem would have been solved.

  • @tw1208 June 29, 2024

    Great work Tom Obula

  • @AmaniDarell June 29, 2024

    I study in Kericho.I see this people doing the work but I've never had an idea of what they go through.May thr Lord help them.

  • @katett3 June 29, 2024

    This is Africa! This is what they do in Hollywood as well, sleep with me then I give you the job. It's not a new thing. It's always the women.

  • @thelastafrican802 June 29, 2024

    Disgusting behavior for any man towards women. This guy is an asshole!

  • @Levimations June 29, 2024

    Thanks BBC journalists.. you saved many families and unburdened so many hearts …. you should be celebrated ✨

  • @bobobiero June 29, 2024

    Wonderful Catie. You made me proud.

  • @shamain4640 June 29, 2024

    This is pathetic, especially happening in modern times, very disturbing

  • @masseylopes2602 June 29, 2024

    Where are the judicial authorities in continent?
    It is not acceptable for something like this to be ignored, people who are looking for work should be treated with dignity. Not in any other way.
    That's not human 💔😭

  • @jennikatube June 29, 2024

    Il faut le traduire en français svp

  • @maryannecomment3302 June 29, 2024

    They should employ female managers.

  • That’s nasty this country don’t have no dam government wowww

  • @ngulations June 29, 2024

    This is really sad.

  • @MrCopierre June 29, 2024

    Due to such stories I feel so angry and sad often times.

    I work and live in West Africa, I am white, European. Not Western. My country became liberated decades after most of these African ones.

    I work very hard, doing my best, yet by such worms , as Unilever, all of us foreign whites are put under this box of "wickeds" or locally called "obrunies".

    Also I am deeply mad by the pretence of these ex colonial countries as the Netherlands or England, while these two's corporation keeps exploiting innocent people. They pretend to be so human and justiceful. Making those grand gestures to clean their dirty conscious of greed and damage they did for centuries, while for their money they let desperate women getting infected with HIV due to rape?!

    What kind of a sick world is this?!

    But let me add: in my oppinion the locals also have a big guilt and things to be deeply ashamed of. They cannot blame only the company for this disgrace they do to women. One sad thing is that these workers suffer by mistreatment in order for profit maximalising, but why do they have to make things even worse?

    I am speechless by this docu and feeling bitter, sad.

    Noone deserves this. Noone!

    All my love, best wishes I send for these victims and I hope justice arrives to them. ❤

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