She was questioned
soon after being sent on compulsory leave by the university council. Some
members of the council are also expected to be questioned today
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| Maasai Mara University VC Mary Walingo |
Beleaguered Maasai Mara University Vice Chancellor Mary
Walingo was questioned yesterday for hours by officers at the Directorate of
Criminal Investigations (DCI) headquarters over the disappearance of Ksh. 190
million.
She was questioned
soon after being sent on compulsory leave by the university council. Some
members of the council are also expected to be questioned today. As the
investigations continue, it seems that succession politics is at play at
the institutions, this is after the council appointed the deputy vice chancellor
academic affairs Prof. Bulitia Godrick Mathews as VC.
However, the move was not well received by a section of
university staff with those opposed to Walngo's leadership claiming it was
meant to cover up misdeeds during her tenure.
It also emerged those opposed to the besieged VC's style of
leadership have already received firing threats among them the four whistle
blowers. Walingo made headlines following a damning exposé that revealed the
rampant corruption in the institution, with her being at the centre of it all.
According to the investigative piece, the suspects used coded language to make
the swindle in which the parties were referred to as "cows" and money
was the "grass".
The whistleblower, the
university's acting finance manager Spencer Sankale , revealed how the VC's
driver, Hassan Noor, was used as a conduit in the heist. The DCI will now seek
to determine who will be the main suspects and which other individuals can be
State witnesses once the case is taken to court.
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