Vol 49 No 25 |
- KENYA
- ANALYSIS
These people (and an estimated 1 000 who were murdered) were victims of the ethnic electoral campaigns of the Daniel arap Moi era against opposition-supporting ‘foreigners’ by pro-regime gangs made up of Kalenjin and Maasai youths of the then incumbent Kenya African National Union party...
Ex-President Daniel arap Moi and senior Kenya African National Union politicians rejected the Akiwumi Commission's findings...
Jirongo a long-time businessman and former ally of ex-President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi is considered a threat in Western Kenya to the ODM's deputy leader Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi Moi's last Vice-President who was brought into the ODM to deliver the vote of the Luhya in western Kenya...
It is true that in the version of the report made public the Odinga supporters named - with the exception of a former lieutenant of ex-President Daniel arap Moi William Ole Ntimama - are almost all minor political and business players who would have drawn finance and support from more senior figures...
Shareholders in Mobitelea include members of Daniel arap Moi's and Nicholas Biwott's families who held power when the Kenyan government approved Safaricom's licence...
The script was straight out of ex-President Daniel arap Moi's bag of tricks: in times of crisis the beleaguered politician rallies around the ethnic flag hoping to precipitate a counter-crisis larger than his personal troubles...
Secretive deals at the presidential level were cut while Daniel arap Moi was in power...
Vol 49 No 15 |
- KENYA
- LIBYA
Locked out for years by the government of President Daniel arap Moi then paralysed in 2003-2005 by infighting within President Mwai Kibaki's government the Libyans could barely get a toe in the door...
They went instead to politicians civil servants army officers and others favoured by the then government of President Daniel arap Moi...
Apparently he did not inform his colleagues when he quietly arranged for the sale of Nairobi's Grand Regency Hotel which the state had acquired after an elaborate swindle under President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi's regime a decade ago to a group of Libyan investors...