Protect, encourage whistle blowers to make disclosures

The courage of a few Kenyans has made whistle-blowing fashionable again. Whistle-blowers are at the centre of reports that a staggering Sh190 million may have been stolen from Maasai Mara University and the Child Welfare Society of Kenya has been ill-treating and abusing several orphaned children.

All societies across history have had whistle-blowers. Men and women who exposed discrimination, torture, slavery, murder, corruption or abuse of public office. Kenya is no different.