Nigerian investigative journalist, Fisayo Soyombo has won the prestigious Kurt schork international journalism award for investigative journalism for his undercover investigation on Nigeria’s criminal justice system.
The journalist who won in the local reporter category did an undercover investigation in July 2019 in which he voluntarily spent two weeks in detention, five days in a prison cell and eight days as an inmate in ikoyi prison to track corruption in the country’s criminal justice system, begining from the moment of his arrest by the Nigerian police to his release from prison so as to experience the workings of the system, adopting the pseudonym Ojo Olajumoke and feigning an offence for which he was arrested, detained in police custody, charged to court and remanded in prison.
The undercover investigation which was funded by the cable and the international center for investigative reporting (ICIR) has gotten Soyombo international recognition and prestigious awards.
The Kurt award is so named in honour of American war reporter Kurt Schork who was killed in Sierra Leone in 2000 while on assignment for Reuters.
The award honours journalists for their reporting on conflicts, corruption and injustice.
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