Allegations of Sexual Abuse
In 2017, it was reported that the UN system was investigating about 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse by its UN Peace Keepers around the world. It is said that the UN spent USD 480,000/= (KShs. 48 m ) investigating allegations of sexual abuse by its peace keeping force in the Central African Republic alone. The […]
FRAUD AT BAYER PHARMACEUTICALS, Inc
Mr. Mike Townsend was employed as a sales representative. He was in charge of Bayer’s Mirena birth control device. His duties included visiting doctors from time to time. One day he discovered one of the doctors imported a cheaper version of Bayer’s Mirena from Canada, and put in Medicaid claims using the pricing of the […]
AIRSPACE SAFETY
Joseph Mangan, an aerospace engineer from Kansas, USA, was recruited in September 2003 to lead the aerospace team at TTTech Computertechnik, a firm in Austria that supplies Airbus components. He noticed and warned of a small but potentially lethal fault in the new A380 super-jumbo. He informed the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), that the […]
Safety in Medicine:
Dr. Alice Stewart – Medical Practitioner – ridiculed, later vindicated In the 1940’s, Dr. Alice Stewart was the youngest and one of a few women members of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK. She investigated the high occurrences of cancers in children from well to do families. At the time, disease was more […]
CHALLENGES OF WHISTLE BLOWING
Several challenges are associated with whistle blowing. Firstly, intentional wrongdoers are a threat to a whistle blower. Secondly, would be whistle blowers fear for both their livelihoods and their lives. Thirdly, there is concern about the reputational risk to some perceived wrongdoers, who in fact, could be victims of malicious reports. These challenges affect all […]
IMPORTANCE OF WHISTLE BLOWING
“Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service—yet they always suffer for it. […] whistleblowing, an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience, has held powerful elites accountable in America.” (A Stanger Whistleblowers: […]
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