Lulu Hassan, Evelyn Wambui who exposed Mugo wa Wairimu crimes vindicated as he is jailed for 29 years

Magistrate Wendy Muchemi said Mugo is a danger to society, hence should be kept away for a long time.

“He is a danger to society...instead of using the knowledge he says he acquired to improve society, he went ahead by purporting to be a gynaecologist and administering drugs to them,” the judge ruled.

She said Mugo opted to abuse his qualified skills from the University of Nairobi to administer drugs so as to rape his patients.

It was the culmination of a sad story that was exclusively aired by Citizen TV seven years ago that shocked and angered a nation, forcing the authorities to swiftly move in and arrest the man.

However, as Sun Tzu famously said, the wheels of justice grind slow but they grind fine, and seven years later, justice was finally served to the victims.

Citizen TV journalists Lulu Hassan and Evelyn Wambui exposed the macabre atrocities done to the unconscious women who visited Mugo's healthcare facilities that offered reproductive services in an investigative piece called 'Doctored Abuse.'

The expose followed the release of a disturbing video capturing the fake doctor taking advantage of a woman who was visibly unconscious.

Evelyn Wambui, a former Citizen TV journalist, noted that the verdict vindicates the whole story and gives voice to the women who were abused by the fake doctor.

She says that there were many other women who did not even know they were raped in the facilities, noting that justice has been served even to those women who did not speak up.

“I spoke to the lady who I interviewed this morning, I had her number with me for 7 years. In her words, she says justice was delayed but not denied. It is more like redemption for the women, we had to hide the face of the lady we interviewed, but she went ahead and became a witness in the court, that takes courage I would say,” she said.

Wambui recalls her interviewee intimating how the doctor would intimidatingly walk towards her in the court during the proceedings.

“Today, I am still feeding off the relief, she went through a lot, she got discouraged every time the hearings were postponed, and she lost her job because of the court appearances, but she and so many other women have been vindicated. The lady we interviewed was in a lot of pain, so I can imagine what other women were going through and that’s what we carried in the story fuelled by being the voice for the voiceless,” she said.

According to Wambui, who is now the Regional Communications and Media Specialist for Plan International, she was determined "to air the story to save the next woman, my colleagues and I wanted every woman to know what the fake doctor was doing to women who went to his facility to seek reproductive services."

Lulu Hassan recalls the public outcry after the story aired. According to Lulu, when they arrived at the facility, Mugo wa Wairimu got an alert that they were there and fled the facility, abandoning his patients.

“The verdict comes as a relief, if you look at it Mugo wa Wairimu discredited our story for a very long time, yet he abused countless women. He refuted the claims and even tried bribing us not to air the story but we had to look at the bigger picture. I am happy the court found him guilty,” she says.

“It took one woman to gain enough courage to talk, a lot of events happened since she decided to talk about her experience but she saved a lot of women from such abuse. The victim could have been me, and highlighting the story went a long way in having this fake doctor arrested, prosecuted, and eventually found guilty of such heinous crimes.”

Paul Chirchir was the man behind the lens during the filming of "Doctored Abuse." He received an alert of a doctor who was allegedly abusing his patients.

“In the video, you see Mugo wa Wairimu remove his trouser and climb on the bed and abuse the girl. In the process of investigating the story, somebody who knew Mugo tried to reach out to us with a bribe,” he recalls.

Since the Citizen TV team did not exactly know how dangerous the man was, they were accompanied by police officers to the facility.

“We went with the Flying Squad," he remembers. "We arrived at the hospital around 10am and left around 7pm. We identified it as the same room as the one we had seen in the video shared with us,” Chirchir says.

According to Chirchir, constant threats would not deter them from highlighting the story.

"He would say, you guys will not go anywhere with that story, and that he would finish us and you know what that means. I remember receiving a call and the man on the other end of the line said we will not live to air the story if we continued being stubborn,” he said.

That chest-thumping did not stop the determined journalists from exposing the evil ways and they helped put the criminal away for a very long time.

Wairimu is currently serving another sentence of 11 years for operating an illegal clinic in Kayole area, after which he will then embark on his 29-year sentence.

Chief Magistrate Wendy Kagendo did not give Wairimu the option of paying a fine.