Davy Koech, formerly of KEMRI

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Mwalimu-G

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Ex-Kemri boss Davy Koech fined Sh19m for fraud
NATIONAL
By Jael Mboga | September 15th 2021
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Former Kemri boss Dr. Davy Koech on Wednesday, September 15,2021 when he was found guilty of corruption when he was the boss at the organization. [Collins Kweyu,Standard]
Former Kemri boss Davy Koech (pictured) has been found guilty of fraudulent acquisition of public property and fined Sh19.6 million.
The case was before Senior principal magistrate Victor Wakumile, who said if Koech is unable to pay, he will serve a six-year jail term.

Koech was accused of transferring Sh19.3 million from Kemri’s bank accounts to his personal accounts when he was MD.
The money was to finance his children’s education abroad.

The funds had been allocated to the Center for Disease Control, Kisumu
However, the office of the DPP has said it is dissatisfied with the sentence and will be seeking an enhancement of the same at the High Court.
-THE STANDARD
 
Na ni kama leo matunda yalikuwa mengi....

Former Sports CS Hassan Wario found guilty of misuse of Sh54m Rio Olympics funds
NATIONAL
By Paul Ogemba | September 15th 2021
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Former Sports Cabinet Secretary Hassan Wario (right) and former senior sports official Stephen Soi are escorted by a police officer as they leave the anticorruption court in Milimani on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. [Collins Kweyu,Standard]

Former Sports Cabinet Secretary (CS) Hassan Wario has been found guilty of abuse of office and misuse of public funds.

The Magistrate’s court in Nairobi said the Prosecution had proven Wario had a role in the embezzlement of funds allocated to the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) to oversee the welfare of Kenyan representatives to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
At least Sh88.6 million was reported to have been embezzled, an investigation ordered by the Sports ministry revealed in November 2016.

The report said the money had been earmarked to buy air tickets for team members, but was instead taken by unidentified ministry officials.
The report was compiled by an investigation team led by Paul Ochieng, the Dean of Students at Strathmore University.
The report said the National Olympic Committee of Kenya also diverted money and kit from U.S. sports equipment manufacturer Nike worth millions of shillings.

“Some (sports) ministry officials misappropriated Sh88,611,480 meant for air tickets. NOCK has been misappropriating Nike contract funds and kit amounting to Sh126 million per year meant for athletes since 2013,” the report said.
The courts, however, established that the then-Sports ministry officials couldn’t account for Sh54 million.
Wario will be detained at the Gigiri Police Station, pending his sentencing on Thursday, September 16, Anti-Corruption Court Chief Magistrate Elizabeth Juma directed.
 
Controversies[edit]
In the 1990s, Koech, by then the Director of Kenya Medical Research Institute and Dr. Arthur O. Obel, the Chief Research Officer published in two medical journals the initial results of the new found drug "Kemron" that was perceived from the preliminary study of 10 patients to cure AIDS. The drug was introduced in a public ceremony presided by Kenya's former President, Daniel Toroitch Arap Moi and the work of the new wonder drug discovered was hailed as a major step against AIDS and a win for African Science by the former Vice President and Finance Minister George Saitoti.[7]

Kemron was the trade name for a low-dose of alpha interferon, manufactured form of a natural body chemical in a tablet form that dissolves in the mouth.[7]

Clinical trials of Kemron funded by WHO in five African Countries did not find any health benefits reported by Kemri Scientists. Thereafter, WHO in a press release in its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland termed Kemron as an experimental drug of unproved benefit for HIV/AIDS treatment.

The American National Institute of Health concluded that no one had been able to duplicate the effects claimed by scientists behind Kemron drug.[8]
 
Mwalimu-G said:
Controversies[edit]
In the 1990s, Koech, by then the Director of Kenya Medical Research Institute and Dr. Arthur O. Obel, the Chief Research Officer published in two medical journals the initial results of the new found drug "Kemron" that was perceived from the preliminary study of 10 patients to cure AIDS. The drug was introduced in a public ceremony presided by Kenya's former President, Daniel Toroitch Arap Moi and the work of the new wonder drug discovered was hailed as a major step against AIDS and a win for African Science by the former Vice President and Finance Minister George Saitoti.[7]

Kemron was the trade name for a low-dose of alpha interferon, manufactured form of a natural body chemical in a tablet form that dissolves in the mouth.[7]

Clinical trials of Kemron funded by WHO in five African Countries did not find any health benefits reported by Kemri Scientists. Thereafter, WHO in a press release in its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland termed Kemron as an experimental drug of unproved benefit for HIV/AIDS treatment.

The American National Institute of Health concluded that no one had been able to duplicate the effects claimed by scientists behind Kemron drug.[8]
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Dr Arthur O Obel
This nigga shot a matatu driver pale Tom street, anyway their Kemron drug haingeenda anywhere, the whites could not allow!
 
Away from all these controversies, KEMRI now is in a very precarious (financial) position, now reduced to relying on unpaid interns and students for basic activities and research.
 
Luther12 said:
Away from all these controversies, KEMRI now is in a very precarious (financial) position, now reduced to relying on unpaid interns and students for basic activities and research.
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And here I was in the earlier days hoping from some Corona related research from them. Or even confirmation of basics, like Corona antibodies that were found in donated blood indicating circulation before the 'first' documented case in the country.
 
DeepInYourMind said:
And here I was in the earlier days hoping from some Corona related research from them. Or even confirmation of basics, like Corona antibodies that were found in donated blood indicating circulation before the 'first' documented case in the country.
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We rarely fund science and research around here, preferring instead to rely on the white man's benevolence.
KALRO is similarly in the doldrums as we speak.
 
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