On November 18, a Nakuru court will decide whether to accept the prosecution’s application for audio and visual recordings implicating the former Maasai Mara University vice-chancellor in the Sh177 million corruption saga.
Prof Mary Walingo, former deputy vice-chancellors Simon Kasaine (administration) and John Almadi (finance), Anaclet Biket (finance officer), and Noor Hassan (Walingo’s driver), according to prosecutor Terry Kahoro, will benefit from the recordings.
They denied ten charges ranging from corruption conspiracy to mismanagement of public funds to abuse of office.
They allegedly conspired to misappropriate university funds totaling Sh177,007,754 at Maasai Mara University in Narok between January 24, 2016, and July 19, 2019.
Kahoro told Nakuru chief magistrate Bildad Ochieng that the recordings showed Walingo misappropriating university funds several times.
She stated that the recordings were made on audio and video on his mobile phone and watched by former university chief finance officer Spenser Sankale.
On Tuesday, Sankale took the stand and informed the court that he had video and audio recordings.
The defence team, led by Manwa Hosea, objected to the evidence’s admission, telling the court that the recordings obtained by the prosecution team should not be admitted because they were obtained illegally.
