Citizen Television has revealed on its news portal how it was able to land on the Maasai Mara heist scoup that has gripped the public.
It all started when the mainstream Royal Media Services-owned outlet was contacted by an accountant of the institution called Spencer Sankale who was concerned about the daylight plunder of the university's coffers.
Sankale had been unsure about whether to uncover the naked corruption but eventually, his conscience prevailed and that's how he ended up calling the Citizen.
Waihiga Mwaura and Asha Mwilu descended on the institution and sat down to listen to the top accountant's story.
Sankale, who has served for a number of years, narrated how he had handled the monies of the institution.
"On August 13, the two senior journalists met with Spencer Sankale Ololchike, an accountant at the university. Spencer revealed how he had directly handled the finances and how looting of public funds had turned one of Kenya’s youngest public universities into ‘a cartel of thieves,
" Citizen Television wrote. To establish the validity of the claims of the top accountant, the media outlet employed the services of elite auditors who raised questions. At the centre of that heist, according to the Citizen reportage, was the Vice-Chancellor Mary Walingo.
Sankale narrated further how he would receive calls from the VC's driver to get money for the institution's head.
The calls were conducted using coded language with Mary Walingo being referred to as 'Ngombe Kubwa' which means 'big cow' in English.
When Sankale fell sick in 2017, he was replaced by a man called John, not his real name. John, on condition of anonymity, gave an account of how they would go round Central Bank regulations stipulating that transactions over 1 million shillings should be explained.
They would draft split checks to beat that regulation, Sankale's replacement said.
Dr Anthony Yiaile another whisleblower confirmed that the institution's finances were being stolen, saying that operations of the university and Health Department had been adversely affected.