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Maasai Mara VC Mary Walingo 'not cleared of graft claims': DPP
What you need to know:
- Officials from the ODPP, who requested anonymity, said the widely shared claims are creating a false alarm since the corruption case against Prof Walingo is active in court.
- The sources further said the claims are aimed at interfering with the investigation, undermining the work of investigators and diverting the public's attention.
- The post by Twitter user Mutemi wa Kiama stated that Prof Walingo was reinstated after four months of State-led investigations that found no evidence against her.
- Prof Walingo was sent on compulsory leave in September 2019 after a media expose implicated her in an intricate corruption network said to have cost the university millions of shillings.
Reports on social media that ousted Maasai Mara University Vice-Chancellor Mary Walingo has been reinstated are false, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has said.
Officials from the ODPP, who requested anonymity, said the widely shared claims are creating a false alarm since the corruption case against Prof Walingo is active in court.
