Purity Mwambia: I was Abandoned in the U.S.A

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Friday, June 2, 2023 –Citizen Tv’s investigative reporter Purity Mwambia has broken her silence two years since her investigative expose’ Guns Galore went viral.

Following her expose that was aired on Citizen Tv on rogue police officers who have been hiring guns to thugs at a fee, Mwambia’s life became a matter of concern forcing her employer to help take her to exile.

And on May 30 while participating in a United States Department of States to deliberate the unique challenges faced by women in the news industry, Ms Mwambia noted that her life has never remained the same after being abandoned in the U.S on exile basis.

She was speaking on her life as a journalist of a major media house on a panel that centered the discussion on highs and lows in the media industry. The show was hosted by Bureau of Global Public Affairs.

Purity used the opportunity to reveal how her life changed to the worse as an exiled female reporter. She went on to claim that living in exile had also killed her career, midway.

“Thank you for this opportunity. My challenges are not very different from other investigative journalists in exile. First of all, when you come here from your country where you’ve done big stories, you’ve quoted all these people who are doing some corruption, big shots in the government… but believe me, when you come here, it’s like your voice is silenced,” Mwambia said.

In her account, living in a foreign land had proved quite a challenge not only to her but many female journalists battling security issues.

“It’s hard to navigate the US media landscape, especially for global journalists. It’s so hard. I’ve been here for two years and I’ve only been able to do one story with one of the local companies,” she added.

Mwambia noted that, once she was flown to the U.S.A, the organisation that facilitated that immediately forgot about her and she had to remain on her own.

Her moving to the U.S was after she started receiving night life-threatening calls and texts from senior police officers and gunmen around the city. Then she had to flee.

“Some who come here say it is like the American dream but has its own challenges. You find yourself in a place where there is no one to talk to, no one to run to. Personally, I was brought here by an organisation and they abandoned me. They left me, I’m on the verge of homelessness because I don’t know what to do next.

“Every day when I walk past all these metro buses and I see these homeless people. It’s one of those stories I would have loved to tell as a journalist, but now I walk as if I’m literally in their shoes, not knowing what’s going to happen to me,” Purity Mwambia said.

Ms Purity Mwambia went into exile in 2021 at the height after her career after she did an exposé ‘Guns Galore’ shedding light on how rogue police officers and soldiers were hiring out their guns to thugs.