Footage of a pastor caught with a young
woman in a hotel room has caused
controversy in Kenya. But who was behind
the video, and many others just like it?
The film looks like an episode of Cheaters, the
American TV programme in which a television
crew tracks down unfaithful partners and
catches them red-handed - with the cameras
rolling of course.
It was broadcast on a news programme in
Kenya, and appears to show Anglican pastor
Charles Githinji half dressed in a hotel room
with a pretty young woman. Another man,
claiming to be the woman's husband, bursts
into the room with a television crew in tow.
The sheepish pastor scrambles for his clothes,
but not before being quizzed by the people
behind the camera. A version uploaded to
YouTube has been watched 250,000 times, and
Kenyans began tweeting about the story using
the hashtag #PantsDown. The phrase has
appeared more than 2,500 times in the last
few days, though not every instance was
related to the pastor's story.
It was not an isolated incident. Similar videos
on YouTube - all of which appear to expose
Kenyan pastors in similar situations - have
racked up hundreds of thousands of views.
In Githinji's case, some are convinced that a
team of people colluded in an attempt to
entrap the pastor, and make money from the
footage. "It was stage managed," says Jackson
Njeru, a prominent Kenyan blogger who
created the controversial Facebook page
Deadbeat Kenya. "When I watched the video,
something was not adding up. The lady was
smiling. She was laughing," he tells BBC
Trending. He believes the woman, her
"husband" and the television crew were
working in collaboration - one of a number of
groups that deliberately target pastors and
other powerful individuals.
Ruth Nesoba, a BBC journalist based in Kenya,
says "apparently what is emerging is a clique of
freelance cameramen who are going round
looking for these kind of stories." News outlets
pay good money for the footage, she adds, as
the stories attract wide audiences.
It isn't yet clear whether Githinji's encounter
with the woman arose organically, or he was
targeted in a sting operation. Either way,
Nesoba thinks that for many Kenyans, it isn't
the most important question. "People are
asking: 'Whether he was lured or not, what is a
pastor doing in bed with his pants down with a
woman who is not is wife?' "
The Anglican Church in Kenya has now launched
an official investigation.

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[size=15pt]A pastor caught in the act – pants down[/size]

The woman may have truly lured him to the hotel,she looked unperturbed

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