James Mugo Ndichu, a quack popularly known as Mugo Wairimu was on Monday, November 21, jailed for 29 years and six months after being found guilty of running a medical clinic illegally.
The court had on Thursday, November 17, found Mugo guilty of running a medical clinic illegally and practicing medicine without required academic qualifications.
A total of 12 counts had been brought against Mugo and Milimani chief magistrate Wendy Micheni found him guilty of 10 counts.
"He is a danger to society and ought to be kept away for a long time," Chief Magistrate Wendy Micheni ruled.
"Instead of using the knowledge he says he acquired to improve society he went ahead by purporting to be a gynecologist and administering drugs to them,” the judge determined.
According to the court, Mugo opted to abuse his qualified skills from the University of Nairobi to administer drugs so as to sexually molest patients.
A clinic that Mugo Wa Wairimu was running alongside a pharmacy, was found to be illegal and not registered.
While delivering the ruling, the judge found that the prosecution proved beyond reasonable doubt that Mugo had been on the wrong side of the law.
“The sexual molestation charge cannot stand in any court of law as the prosecution failed to prove the three main ingredients of forcible intercourse beyond a reasonable doubt to warrant a conviction," the chief magistrate indicated.
"The court required oral evidence from the alleged victim, sufficient circumstantial evidence and DNA samples test which were never provided in court by the prosecution,” she ruled.
According to a statement by one of the witnesses in the case, Wairimu gave drugs to one of his patients, who then became unconscious and when she woke up, she found herself undressed.
Furthermore, Wa Wairimu was acquitted of charges that he unlawfully hired two medical students to work under him in his clinic. This is after the prosecution failed to provide evidence regarding the appointments.
