TRADE MALPRACTICES AT SIME DARBY COMPANY, SOUTH AFRICA
Juan Lerena, an employee, noticed some bad things and resigned from multinational Sime Darby Company of South Africa. He thereafter reported Sime Darby to the Competition Commission for market sharing/colluding/cartel behaviour, abuse of ISO 22000 certification, Misleading and lying regarding food safety certification, Reported SABS to SANAS, South Africa National Accreditation System for not conducting […]
MALPRACTICES AT KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (KEMRI)
In the case of Okiya Omtatah Okoiti v KEMRI Board of Management [2014] eKLR (Ind Ct), Dr. Kizito Lubano blew the whistle on malpractices at KEMRI. He was demoted and transferred to a small centre and started receiving warning letters that he had never had before in his 20 years of service.
EQUITY BANK – ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT
Allegations of sexual harassment of interns were made against a top Manager in the Equity Leaders Programme. These were made public in Facebook posts. Investigations were made and the manager sacked. The company took some corrective measures to prevent recurrence of such an eventuality. However, Nora Chelagat Borus – Stanford Univ Student – the whistle […]
HOUSING FINANCE SACKS EMPLOYEE FOR WHISTLE BLOWING
In the case of Kevin Isika Mule v Housing Finance [2019] eKLR and also reported as in the Daily Nation of 29 November 2019 headlined ‘Kenya: Man Sacked for Exposing Fraud at HF Awarded Sh8.9 Million’, Kevin was a career accountant and director of credit risk. In 2015-2016 he informed his two top bosses of […]
EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION IN KENYA
From 2005 to 2014 Africa lost USD$36 billion and USD$69 billion in illicit financial flows (75% of what it needs for infrastructure development). Thirty percent of Kenya’s budget is lost to corruption. Transparency International estimated that in 2016 -out of a budget of KShs 2 trillion – KShs 600 billion was lost to corruption. In […]
SECURITY IN KENYA
The general state of security in Kenya can be said to be average. Many Kenyans, especially in urban centres, spend a lot of money on private security for their homes and premises. This appears to be fairly deterrent against theft and burglary. However, there is another form of insecurity that manifests itself in the form […]
WHISTLE BLOWING AT THE NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMS – UK
Whistle blowers who helped shine a light on the darkest excesses of the National Health System (NHS) in the UK, raising concerns over patient safety, staff bullying and declining standards of care, rather than being praised for their courage, many claim they faced bullying, threats and in some cases, loss of their jobs. Others were […]
FINANCIAL FRAUD AT OLYMPUS COMPANY
Michael Woodford was the CEO of Olympus company from 1st Dec 1990 to 30th June 1991.[1] He had risen through the ranks of giant Japanese firm Olympus to become CEO. But just weeks into the job in Tokyo he came across allegations of enormous fraud involving over Sterling Pounds one billion. No one in the […]
FINANCIAL FRAUD AT ENRON Inc
Enron Company was formed in 1985.[1] It was reputed to be one of the world’s leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies. Its annual revenue in 1995 was reported to be about $9 billion and this rose to over $100 billion in 2000. All this turned out to be hot air. The […]
CONCEALMENT OF HARM IN CHEMICAL PRODUCTS – MONSANTO
In the case of Dewayne Johnson in the US in which Monsanto was sued for over USD 130 million, papers filed in court revealed that some company officials deliberately tried to cover up negative reports linking glyphosate in the Round Up ready product to cancer. When it was revealed that glyphosate was carcinogenic, the company […]
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