 What's up, good people? My name is Liz Jackson. Welcome to SPMWise and I'm right here with yet another interview and my guest today I would love him to introduce himself to you guys. I'm sure you've heard about his story but Kwanza, wacha nimo wacha ji introduce, habari ya kwa? I'm Zuresana. Kwa po? Kavisa. So I would love you to introduce yourself to our audience. Hi guys, my name is Bruce Madeka Manozoal Kenya or Mr. Kenya. Ya, now we are here for some discussion. Welcome. So Bruce, you said that you're the man of Kenya. Ya, we would want to know when did you get that title, when was it and what was the preparation before you did the competition and also why do you think you won that title? Ya, when you talk about this modeling in Kenya. Ya, we have Mr. Wild Kenya which is an international title is Mr. Wild but this man of the world is Nyun Kenya so you saw that you can see that male models depend too much on Mr. Wild Kenya which takes like four years to happen again. So many models dream to go to present the country outside that it wasn't a die, no no. So man of the world, he killed me apply last year and he made to take like four years for Kenya to qualify, it has its own rules. For you to qualify, for a country to qualify for man of the world there is standard to set internationally. So we took four years to set standards for us to get that lenses to be given the lenses to do man of the world Kenya. So I was crowned man of the world Kenya on January this year and given the lenses and the certificate to flag the Kenyan flag. Ya, so man of the world Kenya is all about masculinity of the Papas. It's a new French in Kenya and actually it's the second after Mr. Wild. The second is actually about taking Mr. Wild since it's happening annually. Ya, that's all about man of the world Kenya. So when you won in January, we would want to know each ripia, Philippines and yetunatakatu ingiliye badai, when you win man of Kenya, man of the world, when you win man of the world, what do you get in return? Una patatu title or do you get, you know, gifts, do you get paid, what exactly do you get? Ya, this title comes with full responsibility. Responsibility of carrying your country on your back. Like I'm feeling so heavy right now. Like if you see a population of male modus in the country, they are like a family population. So all of them are watching at me. Now this title, apart from the benefits of cash and revise, since it is a first time, I'm like the roots. How I'll perform, how I'll do it, how I'll go to perform, how I'll go to compete, everything I'm doing depends on the future of this franchise. So the responsibility that is coming with this man of the world, much of it is more for responsibility than the benefits since it is a first. So for now, the heavy responsibility I have on my back is carrying the whole country to this competition. Now this competition, since it is the first time in Kenya, and we as Kenya we have qualified for the first time, now it's like I'm holding the country in my hands to do or die. If I go to the competition, the license will continue to be there. If I don't go, the license will be revoked. So everything is on my hands. So I feel more of heavy responsibility than the benefits and which I'm ready for it. So are you trying to tell us that if you do not go to, it's Philippines, right? If you do not make it, does it mean that the license will now be revoked? Yeah, if I don't make to Philippines, now the license will be revoked. So Kenya will be disqualified? Kenya will be disqualified for like the next four years. So there will be no man of the world for the next four years. So in Rokituambine, it's just stress and yeah, it may work for it for four years. We have been doing a lot of projects in the community. You know to qualify for man of the world needs to come with responsibility. That's why the theme of man of the world is masculinity with responsibility. They need to see that this country is progressing in terms of modeling, modeling in terms of community programs. Like I myself for example, there are some community programs that we have been doing for us to attract the attention of the man of the president. So if we don't go for the competition, if we don't participate in the country, the license will be revoked. All right, so now let's get into details about the Philippines trip. When are you supposed to travel? Supposed to travel on 6 June. The competition is supposed to take like two weeks from 6 June to 18 June in Manila, Philippines. Manila, Philippines, you're supposed to go on 6 and it will take two weeks. So now let's get to the logistics aspect of the trip. Let us know how much you require and we would want you to break down what exactly the amount will cater for. Now we have a budget. Now for our budget, at the beginning we presented a budget of the whole team. Like I have my manager, we have the acting director and a photographer. So we presented a huge budget of like four people. But after I have visited and consulted the offices of the government, they claimed of financial constraints which we had to reduce the budget to a one-person budget only the candidates which is not required but it had to. So the budget of only a candidate is about 380,000 Kenyan shillings that is clothing of flights and accommodation and some few closets. So that the budget that you worked on and you have really struggled actually. We visited each and every office. Could you please name the offices that you visited? When you talk about modeling, we have the Ministry of Tourism. The Ministry of Tourism is in charge of sponsoring the models to go outside because when you go to present outside you are marketing the country diversity, you are marketing the country tourism. So modeling is one way of marketing the country tourism. So that's docket should be taken care of the Ministry of Tourism. Because when you go for the competition there is a category called national costume. National costume is whereby you dress according to your country diversity. National costume will represent your country culture and you explain in details. So it's all about marketing the country tourism. So you get that many countries that make it in modeling. Like for example South Africa, Rwanda, Egypt to see their tourism, their foreign exchange in terms of tourism is increasing. So modeling is a very good of marketing the tourism. So the Ministry of Tourism was supposed to take care of this. So first of all visited the Ministry of Tourism, we had an engagement with the PS for the tourism. And after some months it took like 3 months for us. Hold on, sorry for cutting you short. You met the PS physically one-on-one? Actually we did not directly met the PS but we met the team of the PS. I knew the directors and everything. But the PS is the person who was signing the letter and was responding. Yeah, so after approximate of 3 months we received the response of no budget for this item. So we were forwarded to the Ministry of Sports, which the docket was transferred to the Ministry of Sports under the youth, under the State Department of Youth and under the PS Ismail for the youth department. We met with the Secretary for the State Department, Mr. Raymond. And the same response we got, no budget. But they went ahead to forward us at the request to the Kenyaklafishon film, KFCB, Kenyaklafishon film pod. The CEO, Mr. Ambua, also responded with no budget. So every officer we visited responded with no budget. We also worked with the corporates, the camp and the corporates, Safaricom, KCB Bank, Port Pesa. So the same response was the same, no budget for this item for now. But we thought that according to how the people responded from the internet, from the retrended, the issue is that the mall modeling is not accepted in Kenya. The issue of Chiloba and the Gasm is not as affected as, like if we go there to the government offices and you approach them, they receive in a negative manner, like this person must be a gay, this person must be LGBTQ, so they don't take us serious. But if a lady got to that office, they don't even spend more than a month before they get funded. So I think all of this issue, cycling for the government offices, cycling around the corporates, for them to reject our proposal, it's all about this LGBTQ thing, the negativity in the modeling industry for the Kenyans. All right, so, wow, that's a lot. So up until now, have you been able to raise any amount for the trip? Actually, it is said that it's not done till it's done. We almost gave up, we receive a lot of nos, no in every door, no, no, no, no, no, no. But the time we're about to give up, I remember the responsibility that is ahead of me. I remember that this country, that I'm the person to determine the lifetime, the future of man of the world franchise. I'm the person to determine the lifetime, the future of the model, male model, which is there watching at me. So Pia Nikangaliya Pia, the projects that I'm doing, like I run a deaf project, actually I'm the trainer for the first Miss Deaf Kenya and the nature, I nature her and then we organize Miss Deaf Kenya, the first Miss Deaf Kenya, I was the trainer, I was on the board, so I work with the deaf community. I empower them, I nurture them. I also visit the school deafs. I also do prisons visits. We do tapati forum in prisons, actually we organize the first Miss Langata prison, we do modeling in prison, I'm the trainer of modeling all the prisons in Kenya. So we visit all the prisons, we do everything. So if I look at those projects, those projects kuna villi zime kufa kufa. Now for it to get funded, we need funding from outside. Me going to this competition for man of the world is an opportunity for me to get funds to continue empowering those people in prison, to continue empowering this deaf. So when I almost gave up, I remember that I'm killing the dream of people down there. I'm killing the dream of the deaf. I'm killing the dream of the prisoners, right? So we decided to come up with a pay bill. I met with Eri and we discussed about this. He posted me. So we discussed about coming the pay bill. So that's the pay bill that will come, meet and deposit this today. And we are urgent Kenyans or any leader who can come and intervene in this matter. It can help. Are there individuals or influential people that you would want the message? Ni kama unafili wanawazako sa idea, but it does not have the links to get to them. You can maybe talk to them on camera. Actually this is a matter between a fight of a boy child. Onarebo karanya mu is a good friend. Actually she has done a school. She has been helping. And I believe she can do more. She fights for the boy child. Actually Karan is a very kind hearted person. Yeah, but this is nice. This is a fight of a boy child. Madam Dorcas regards. She fights for the boy child. I think she can intervene in this matter. Because this amount is too little. Like the end of 80 is a very big shame for me to post like I'm fundraising for the end of 80 and Ken Shilling. This is equivalent to $3,500. I'm fundraising for that $500. All mista of the country is fundraising for that amount. You know, the whole world is watching now. Since I was called the man of the world, now the whole world is watching the international bloggers. Like yesterday I was posted by a blogger from from Thailand, it's international. But I'm doing a fundraising. I felt like it's a shame for the country. You see? But our leaders you can do more. Like Dorcas, our second lady can intervene in this matter. The first lady also can do this matter. Also the content creators. Let's not depend much on the government. You know, I can give an example of Miss Tanzania. Miss Tanzania in 2018, she was going for a competition and she never got support from the government. But we saw that all the celebrities came together. Akina Damond, Akina Lavalava, all of them they came together, Akina Likiba. They all posted on Instagram and they did a fundraising. Actually she got like 10 times the amount she was requiring. Then she announced that if Pesa Mbalapata extra, I'm going to sit for the community development projects. So Kenyans kuna villatupendani. I think what Eric did was good. It was an example for other content creators. People which follow us. You know, I don't have a youth follower, like Mbalapata followers Vile. But people with a good follower like Eric and all of you, including you and all of them, Akina Bhutita, all of them, they can join and post that pay bill and can get funds. So we need to be united. Our celebrities need to support this talent. It's not about giving cash. It's about showing support, showing solidarity. Because Iaibu nietsote. Iaibu nietsote. The more I'm posting that pay bill on my pages, Naibika, the Kenyapia Naibika, like all Mr. Kenyans fund raising for that $500. No, no. So if you come together, come the celebrities, if you come together to join hands, to say Mersaideo Jamaleda, like the other is the support of Mustafa. Aka kwa helps. Now the other unity that should be done because modeling also independent kwa music here, like for example, in Manozewa ita kuna fanika annually. The same ita kwa income to those celebrities because we need MC, we need artist, we need... No, na. So ita kwa employment kwa kilakitu. So this an economic impactation. No, na. So we need to act together. Ya. All right. And by any chance, have you tried to contact the CS for Ministry of Youth Affairs and Arts Ababuna Mwamba? Actually there are protocols kwa ministry, there are protocols. For you to get to the CS, you need to pass through the PS. We followed all the protocols. For you to get to the PS, you need to go through the directors. For you to get through the directors, you need to go through the assistant directors. So kuna protocols. It depends on how connected you are. If you are not well connected, you are going to use the protocol. Since we thought we had enough time with my team, we followed the protocol. Under the SPOS Ministry, we went to the MacTab house and we were taken back to Kencon for the PS for the youth. We followed the protocol, meeting the assistant director, we had a meeting and appointment. Then we met with the directors, we had a meeting and appointment. Then we met with the secretary for the sports, Mr. Raymond, we had a meeting and appointment. So he was the person supposed to follow up to the CS. But he stopped me up. I said, no fans, no fans, no fans, no fans. So I said, no fans. After we ended up because CS, we ended up. But I've seen the CS, I've been tagged, I've been approached one hour or two about the matter, I'm on Gileshwa, I'm Skia, but I don't know why it's not reacting. I can't tell that. Maybe he has his own reasons. I'm assuming the CS Honorable Ababuna Momba is watching you right now. Speak to him on camera and tell him how he can come through for you. Mr. Ababuna Momba, are you the full CS? Actually you have tried all means to get to you and you have tried all means to get help. Like this thing is a matter between life and death for the Kenyan modeling male industry. If you don't do this, there are many talents there down that are going to die. There are many hopes there down that are going to die. So I'm asking for your intervention on this matter because Man of the World Franchi is a program in terms of the better. It's a program of economic better bottom up economic model agenda transformation the way you're saying. So please intervene this matter and help us go to make it to Manila Philippines for the competition. The old country responsibility is in my hands like everything that I'm doing the projects, nakilakitu, they all die if I don't make it to the competition. Please, please, please, just intervene the matter. Oh, all right Bruce that was that's very emotional. I must say so if any of you influential people politicians you know Bruce has mentioned you and you feel you can come through for Bruce. Please tell them where they can get you. You can get her through Instagram Bruce Madeka Instagram Bruce Madeka or you can get through the name of Franchi Man of the World Kenya. Yeah, and and if the poster for the pay bill there is my contact there you can contact me in case of anything. Yeah. All right guys. So that was it from Bruce Mateka and I. I hope you have had about his plea. So if you're in a position to assist we will link the pay bill then if Honorable Ababu Namaba gets to see this we do hope that you know you could extend a hand of grace to Bruce Mateka so that he can go represent Kenya in Manila, Philippines. And he's really running out of time. It's on 6 June. So that's like three weeks. Yeah, and also yeah, if you see like if you are going to a competition you need to study the movement of your competitors. Like I'm the only Mr. who is struggling. The rest are busy at the gym preparing preparing the outfits. Like I'm moving up and down looking for money doing this and this you know it's affecting me, right? And if so the rest of my competitors are just relaxing doing the gym. Ono male is about maxility also. I have to have a good body. Attactive body. So it's affecting me. So the time limits it's very small for me. It's like two weeks, right? Yeah, two weeks. Like if there is someone who can't have been fast so that I can get my focus in the preparations before because preparing for modeling competition is not just about category but the modeling is not about category. Modeling category is just 5%. 5%. Modeling is about your brain. Your IQ. Your impact. What impact can you bring to the community if you are crowned man of the world for the international? What impact can you bring to the international level? So for me I'm a man on a mission. I want to be the first African to be international title for male pageant because there has never been a male model who has ever won international pageant except for ladies. So Africa has won this universe. I'm a man on a mission and I'm well experienced. Tennis experience in modeling, right? So I believe my experience is going to help me. All I need is your support because I want to make this history. The history of being the first African to win this title. Yeah. Since the time is limited, please let's unite for this. All right. We've all had Bruce and we've had his request. So if you're in a position to assist, please do. Thank you so much Bruce for coming to SPM and speaking to us. We do hope that this interview will get to the right people. I'm Liz Jackson. I'm going to see you guys on the next one.