Kenya Medical Training College board chairman Philip Kaloki and a senior staff in the institution are under investigation by the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission for alleged illegal operations and abuse at the college.
Kaloki and ‘corporation secretary’ Mirriam Ndunge Muthoka are on the radar of EACC for alleged abuse of office by flouting the state corporation’s guidelines and also running the institute like a family affair.
The two are lovers, it is claimed. On October 15, 2020, EACC wrote to the college chief executive officer Michael Kiptoo indicating that they were investigating allegations of irregular recruitment of Ndunge as the corporation secretary. In a letter to Kiptoo by EACC staffer Patrick Owiny for secretary/ chief executive officer, they are also investigating the same board for the recruitment of its senior officer in unclear circumstances.null
Philip Kaloki
EACC sought to have the institution provide EACC with the approval for recruitment minutes by the board, advertisement, long list and shortlist of applicants and the application documents for the shortlisted candidates that okayed the appointment of Ndunge. EACC said it derived powers pursuant to their mandate set out under Article 252 (1) )a), (d)) of the constitution, section 11of the EACC Act and section 4 (2) and 42 (10) of the Leadership and Integrity Act 2012. Owiny has assigned officers Sylvester Mugo and Jackson Mwai to investigate the list of interviewing panels, board minutes confirming appointment and Ndunge’s confidential/personal file.
Weekly Citizen investigations have seen a birth certificate indicating that Kaloki and Ndunge Muthoka born in 1985 have a son called Arving Mwendwa Kyalo born on October 17, 2015, and EACC will be looking at the matter to establish an abuse of office on the two lovebirds. The birth certificate entry number 0263755285registered on October 23 2015 indicates that their son was delivered at Agha Khan Hospital. Interestingly, Ndunge was employed on November 13 2015 just two weeks after gifting Kaloki with a baby boy.
Also to be investigated are the minutes of the approval for recruitment by the board, advertisement, long list and shortlist of applicants and the application documents for the shortlisted candidates. Those in the know say that Ndunge was appointed in 2015 a year after Kaloki came in as the chairman of the board and has more powers than the current KMTC chief executive officer.
Mirriam Ndunge
She has a vast office, spacious with expensive modern office equipment as compared to that of Kiptoo. Her office has a kitchen, shower bathroom, two waiting rooms, a conference room all in one. She has also been assigned a Toyota Prado institute’s car, where she is chauffeured and the car enjoys limitless fuel, a subject of investigations by the Inspector of State Corporations. At times, when Kaloki visits the office, it becomes a no-go zone area with the duo spending good afternoon moments. Kaloki acts as executive chairman at KMTC. Having realized that he is now trapped and could be in trouble for promoting not only tribalism but also bringing bedroom matters to the corporation, Kaloki who employed Ndunge when she had just given birth to his child, is not trying to save his mistress’ job which has been illegally formalized.
When Ndunge was employed as the company secretary no such position existed and did not have blessings of the board. Kaloki’s efforts to have the position confirmed has been declined by the office of the state corporation inspectorate. Kaloki wants it classified as position M16 in the ranking. Instead, the Inspector of the State Corporation officer does not mind having the corporation secretary position being on M14 level. This will be a demotion to the powerful Ndunge and will deny Kaloki the opportunity of promoting the girlfriend to the CEO position after attempts to elbow out Kiptoo who is a professor of Immunology.
Michael Kiptoo
For now, Ndunge is worried upon discovery, she is serving in an illegal position and is enjoying hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’ money illegally. She is likely to face economic-related criminal charges. As indicated in the two letters by the Inspector of State Corporations and EACC, Ndunge could soon be surcharged for the money she has illegally collected from the illegal office prepared for him by the boyfriend. Efforts by Kaloki who once served as Kibwezi MP and comes from the same constituency as Ndunge to change the structure could prove futile given that the two organizations already know of his intentions and two officers of the EACC are on their case. Interestingly, while Kaloki is pushing to have Ndunge regularise the illegal position of the company secretary, Weekly Citizen is aware that the lady does not have any legal background. Documents she presented during employment claims that she was a part-time lecturer at Egerton University from January 2013.
Sources are questioning as to why the lady who just came in at the tail end of 2015 is currently wielding a lot of power and is calling the shots dwarfing some senior staff who have stayed in the college for over 30 years and have credentials and experience to ably run the corporation. In government promotion to higher positions is always guided by experience and the ability to perform tasks diligently and ably with integrity. It is expected that the EACC investigation will unravel the love triangle as the motive of her promotion to an office not existing and the need by Kaloki to ensure the mother of his child is at the helm of the 71 medical training colleges across the country.
Nzioka Waita
But it is not her alone who is in deep trouble for ‘eating’ taxpayers money illegally. Kaloki is also on the EACC radar and that of the Inspector of State Corporation over the abuse of office and the use of company cars and alleged illegal allowances claims. Inspector general of corporations Lawrence Okudo has also written to the KMTC chief executive officer requesting for the details of the work tickets for vehicles assigned to the chairman and the board members for the financial year 2016/2017, 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. Kaloki uses two institution’s cars yet he is not an executive chairman and is therefore not expected to have a car allocated to him but should only attend a few meetings in a year to guide the policy direction of the corporation. Instead, Kaloki has an office where he attends to every day and holds his meetings with his constituents and pushes the political deals from there. Okudo in his letter dated October 8 is also seeking payment vouchers for board allowances for the three years from 2016 to 2019.
The Inspector general of corporations also wants additional documents to be provided pursuant to his earlier communication to Kiptoo referenced ISC/INS/POL/72/VOL, on November 26 2019 on the above subject. To finger the Kaloki, Inspector General of Corporations KMTC CEO boss to furnish his office with the invitation letters for all activities and events attended by the board chair and members for 2016/2017, 2017/2018, and 2018/2019 and the signed memorandum of understandings during this period. And on the issue of Ndunge, Okudo wants the human resource committee minutes for the financial year 2014 all the way to 2017 which will establish how the chairman’s girlfriend got the appointment to such a powerful position. Kaloki is now banking on the second chief of staff Nzioka Waita to save him.
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