A UK member of Parliament has finally stepped forward and admitted that she helped President Uhuru Kenyatta clinch his victory during the 2017 elections.
In an expose by UK's Channel 4 News, Alexandra Phillips finally conceded that she worked for the controversial data firm, Cambridge Analytica, and was its agent in Uhuru's campaign team.
According to the media house, the MP had earlier strenuously denied any involvement with the firm and had reportedly pressured the station's journalists to drop the story.
She, however, only came forward after the news outlet obtained a recording "of an interview from 2017 in which she confirms she had been employed by Cambridge Analytica to work for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta."
"I wasn’t working for Jubilee, I was employed by Cambridge Analytica who had the contract with Jubilee. I was brought on as a political communications consultant for the Kenya project," she eventually admitted.
While in Kenya, Philips revealed that she often helped in the writing of Uhuru's speech and that she shaped the messaging by State House team.
"I’d be writing the president’s speeches and his talking points for rallies and State House statements. I trained their communications team; they’re all sort of journalists who came together to create a press office. So I had to train them up and daily management of that communications team," she continued.
So sensitive was her work that every time she was asked what she did for a living, she would answer that she worked as an air hostess.
Previously, State House and the Jubilee Party had denied ever commissioning the embattled firm as its consultant.
"They were basically branding and all that but not directly," former Jubilee Vice-Chair David Murathe stated at the time.
Here is the video courtesy of Channel 4 News:
