# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-githongo
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:32:22.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-githongo"
name: "John Githongo"
slug: "john-githongo"
description: "John Gìthongo is a former Kenyan journalist who investigated bribery and fraud in Kenya and later, under the presidency of Mwai Kibaki, took on an official governmental position to fight corruption. In 2005 he left that position, later accusing top ministers of large-scale fraud. In the Anglo-leasing corruption which he blew the lid over, fraudulent deliveries of government military and forensic laboratory equipment were allegedly ordered, \"delivered\" and the payment completed in the former president Uhuru Kenyatta's tenure. The story of his fight against corruption is told in Michela Wrong's book It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower."
tagline: "Kenyan journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Githongo_2015_Allard_Prize_ceremony.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.88
  momentum:             1.337209302325581
  historical:           4.41404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AB%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "جون جيثونجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Githongo"
    title: "John Githongo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Githongo"
    title: "John Githongo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Githongo"
    title: "John Githongo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Githongo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1700229"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump