A close associate of former president Daniel arap Moi  Gichuru was the managing director of the state utility behemoth between 1984 and 2003  during which time he became one of the country's wealthiest men (AC Vol 40 No 25  Going for broke)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     His rival  Ruto  who launched his career as a uber-loyalist to President Daniel arap Moi and spearheaded the youth wing of the old ruling party  Kenya African Union (KANU)  is styling himself as the rebel outsider  idealising the hard-working 'hustler'...
	 
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	     Then Kibaki and Odinga led an opposition alliance against the political establishment in the form of the Kenyan African National Union whose leader Daniel arap Moi had stepped down and handed the the leadership to Kenyatta...
 The only local tissue paper manufacturer through his company  Madhupaper  Macharia ran afoul of the Daniel arap Moi government  spending over a decade in court...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 62 No 20 | 
            - PANDORA PAPERS
 
        
        
		
        
        
    
        
	
	     The family of former President Daniel arap Moi was  curiously  not mentioned in the Pandora Papers beyond the fact that the Mois and the Kenyattas shared the same consultants  from the private wealth division of Swiss bank UBP...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    In the dog days of President Daniel arap Moi's reign  Kenya acquired a reputation for borrowing from the International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions after promising economic reform  before reneging on its commitments  then using the funds for political projects...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi (Odinga's running mate in 2007)  Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka  Kenya African National Union's Gideon Moi (son of Kenya's second President Daniel arap Moi)  and Ford Kenya leader Moses Wetang'ula have created their own 'Sacred Alliance' faction and are conducting their own campaigning on the BBI under the banner of a 'One Kenya Movement'...
	 
    
    
    
			
        
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	    If funerals are Kenyan politicians' favourite platform for campaigning  the memorial service to mark the anniversary of former President Daniel arap Moi's death in Nakuru was the next best thing (AC Vol 61 No 6  The fight for Jubilee)...
	 
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	     The growing prominence of Gideon Moi  son of late President Daniel arap Moi  in the succession matrix  we understand  should be taken seriously...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Her influence within diplomatic circles and in the bureaucracy has grown steadily over four administrative cycles  starting with Daniel arap Moi's government  which first appointed her to the Geneva mission...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	    ' And then Mudavadi  once the country's youngest Finance Minister  the last of Daniel arap Moi's vice-presidents and later a deputy prime minister – in short  a creature of the establishment if ever there was one – quoted Rev Martin Niemöller  'First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out…' All this was true  and nobody else was saying it...