Most senior Kalenjin officers have closer links to the family of former President Daniel arap Moi whose son Gideon is an opposition politician...

They remember the way that Ruto's political patron President Daniel arap Moi also played communities off against each other to marginalise Mount Kenya...

Devani had excellent political connections established during the presidency of Daniel arap Moi...

Yet Ruto's rhetoric with thinly veiled threats has prompted comparisons with the President's authoritarian mentor Daniel arap Moi...

A more accurate model would be the Kenya African National Union (KANU) which underpinned Daniel arap Moi's autocratic government and is now led by his son Gideon Moi (AC Vol 64 No 1 The return of one-man rule)...

Odinga's camp now say that they don't recognise Ruto as a legitimate president hinting at the kind of political protest that disrupted the authoritarian rule of the late Daniel arap Moi and chronically weakened the economy...

One of the key figures in liberating Kenya from Daniel arap Moi's autocracy Odinga deserves better than to be defined by his five fruitless attempts to be elected president...

Azimio has reacted by comparing Ruto's co-opting tactics to those of former President Daniel arap Moi and as an attempt to diminish parliamentary oversight...

However Ruto will have been cheered by the result in Rongai constituency in Nakuru also in the Rift Valley where UDA's Paul Chebor comfortably defeated Raymond Moi son of former President Daniel arap Moi three weeks after his younger brother Gideon Moi lost his Baringo senate seat to William Cheptumo...