Hospital worker siphons Sh10 million patients’ money to her bank account

A hospital worker at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) is in soup after she allegedly stole Sh10 million from patients and deposited it into her own bank and M-Pesa accounts. The hospital worker who has been identified by the police as Jane Wangari Wachira is alleged to have done this by manipulating books and the eCitizen payment system.

She is alleged to have been working with an outside accomplice who has been identified as Khamisi Hussein Akida.

Wangari and Akida are said to have targeted patients seeking to clear their bills between January 1, 2025 and February 9, 2026.

According to the detectives lead investigating officer Edwin Chirchir, patients were made to bypass the official eCitizen paybill of 222222.They would be asked to pay via cash or via the worker’s personal M-Pesa numbers.

Once these payments were done, Wangari used her position at the MTRH to bypass internal checks and to clear the patients’ bills on eCitizen. “The suspected accessed the eCitizen platform to purportedly clear the patients’ bills without depositing a single cent into the hospital’s account,” Mr. Chirchir told the Eldoret Chief Magistrate Peter Ndwiga who is hearing the case against the duo.

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After clearing the bills on the eCitizen system, Wangari would then issue official receipts and patients would be discharged from the hospital.

This scam was discovered on February 5, 2026 when an internal audit of the hospital accounts flagged discrepancies and revealed the missing amounts. The hospital then reported the matter to the police on February 9, 2026 under the OB No.13/9/2/2026.

The first to be arrested was Akida who then led detectives to Wangari and identified her as his accomplice.

The court heard that detectives believe the duo is part of a larger network that worked behind the scenes to bypass the hospital’s technical systems.

“We believe that this is part of a larger network,” Mr. Chirchir told the court. “We are analyzing CCTV footage, mobile data and bank and M-Pesa statements to trace the full extent of the syndicate.”