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'...
DISPATCHES
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...