Those scrambling to view Moi’s body are motivated by their only chance of entering Parliament By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE They have been jostling, pushing, shoving. Others jump queues, effects of impatience, the baking sun. The purpose: A second to file past a dead body. Indeed, Kenyans from all walks and runs of life […]
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Funeral album: Moi chose gospel, Bob Collymore went classical, Fai Amario picked Frank Sinatra
During the burial of Fidel Odinga, his sister Rosemary sang Bob Marley’s Redemption Song By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @Undercover KE Kenyans were given three days to Monday February 10, to view the remains of the late retired President Daniel arap Moi-who chose, Forever with the Lord, as his main funeral song. President Moi loved […]
Kenyatta’s pistol and the Sh1.67 pending Pilsner bill
While he smuggled VAT 69 into the presidential limo, he preferred lager from the pub inside Parliament By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE Sir Humphrey Slade was elected independent Kenya’s first Speaker of the National Assembly in February 1967. But the lawyer and ardent mountain climber was more known for his run ins with founding President […]
The vulture is a patient bird: President Moi was calculating, sudden, bloodless!
Moi was a contradiction: He ran a beer distributorship, but never cut a drop. He fought to protect elephants, but carried an ivory rungu By Undercover Reporter @Undercover KE In the high school soccer team, he was nicknamed ‘wheelbarrow’ for his skills in defense. At the Nairobi Hospital where he died aged 95, medics […]
How tipsy veterinary doctor made Moi Kenya’s second president
For starters, the mistress of Moi’s wildest dreams never kissed the lips of political ambitions BY GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @Undercover KE The alcoholism of a veterinary doctor gave Kenya its second president, a dictator whose 24 year rule was a study in social waste, economic ruin and political grief. President Daniel arap Moi, who has closed […]
President Moi: Inside the Sh300 billion hot inheritance…in a cold family!
The least known of the sons is John Mark who attended Harvard University but life on the fast lane took its toll By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @Undercover KE It will be interesting to see how the Moi children play out their inheritance cards. The fortunes of the late retired President Daniel arap Moi ran into […]
President Moi: He made the Tugen Boy’s Club filthy rich
Joshua Kulei was President Moi’s personal assistant, business associate besides being brother in-law to Central Bank Governor By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @Undercover KE In a country where the wealthiest are pseudo-celebrities, not many Kenyans could single out Joshua Kulei in a crowd of three. Secretive and taciturn, the man who made his billions as the […]
President Moi: 12 fascinating facts … you will read Number 7 three times!
By Undercover Reporter His early business ventures included; selling animal skins and paraffin before running a posho mill and a general store. He then invested in a transport company with Reuben Chesire whose shares he sold in the 1970s. 2. His major investment was the 3000 acre Kabarak Farm bought through a bank loan from […]
Christian Mafia: How National Prayer Breakfast triggered Dr Robert Ouko’s murder!
Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Minister was assassinated two weeks after a Prayer Breakfast in February 1990 By Mbatia wa Njambi Visiting Thinker By now you know the annual National Prayer Breakfast held at the end of every May at the Safari Park Hotel Nairobi, is never about prayers-but influence peddling. In fact, one Prayer Breakfast led […]
#RIP Kobe Bryant: When basketball was popular than English Premier League in Kenya
Those born in the 1990s might find it funny that most Sunday afternoons were spent watching NBA on KTN By Idris ‘Shoes’ Lule Sports Correspondent @Undercover KE He was so famous he did not need a surname. Like Oprah, Obama and Beyonce, you had to know who Kobe was, and if you didn’t, now you know […]