Profile

Kwetey Nartey
Category: West Africa Journalists of the Year
Media House: Joy News
Country: Ghana

Kwetey Nartey is Senior Journalist with Joy News, Accra-Ghana. He is a multiple award-winning investigative journalist and Co-founder of IHUB Africa, a non-governmental organization, focused on training aspiring young investigative journalists. His award-winning story—Robbing the Poor—is a two-part investigation.  It was an inquiry into how some produce buying clerks find dubious means to cheat cocoa farmers. The clerks also paid the farmers less for premium cocoa, certified ordinary cocoa as premium, and smuggled names into beneficiary communities under the cocoa certification programme.