Inside the lobbying campaigns, bribery attempts, regulatory blackmail, and cynical youth marketing strategy behind the KSh 7 billion dividend that BAT Kenya’s shareholders will never read about in the company’s glossy annual report.
The company calls it growth. Public health calls it a tragedy.
An investigation by The Guardian has uncovered British American Tobacco (BAT) pressured Kenya to reduce health warnings on Lyft nicotine pouches, threatening investment withdrawal. BAT threatened it would pull investment from a Nairobi factory if its request for smaller labelling was not met. Letters between British American Tobacco (BAT) and the Ministry of Health show the […]
