Even before he joined the cabinet insiders referred to him as the 'new Nicholas Biwott' Moi's political fixer and business brain...
Kenya group as an old-style ethnic cabal (Kikuyu Embu and Meru) running the government and defying elected representatives - something equivalent to the Kalenjin mafia headed by Moi and his business-political ally Nicholas Kipyator Biwott...
At a recent cabinet meeting Kosgey blamed Nicholas Kipyator Biwott's daughter Esther for the crisis at Kenya Reinsurance although insurance brokers blame Kosgey for appointing Peter Kenneth as Managing Director...
Most of Moi's other pillars Professor Sam Ongeri Hosea Kiplagat Nicholas Biwott and Joshua Kulei are not likely to resurface in government soon although Biwott together with Sally Kosgey is firmly in the sights for legal action by some of Kibaki's new ministers...
Vol 43 No 25 |
- KENYA
- ZIMBABWE
He speaks admiringly of his associate Nicholas Kipyator Biwott as a 'total man' meaning one who has the courage to fight to the death...
Many dismissed Uhuru as a political lightweight who would be controlled by Moi and close ally Nicholas Kipyator Biwott...
Moi and his closest advisors Trade Minister Nicholas Biwott personal assistant Joshua Kulei cabinet ministers William Ruto Cyrus Jirongo and Henry Kosgey and civil service chief Sally Kosgei sound utterly sure of victory for their Kenya African National Union...
Moi his son Gideon Nicholas Kipyator Biwott Joshua Kulei and William Ruto - KANU's nomenklatura - are ready to take that risk...
Moi and his Trade Minister Nicholas Kipyator Biwott seem to have brought Raila and Luoland into KANU given them two cabinet seats out of 21 and three senior party posts out of 34 and said thank you very much...
Another would be for his close ally Nicholas Kipyator Biwott to run for KANU leader...
The dynamic duo President Daniel arap Moi and his Trade Minister Nicholas Kipyator Biwott dominate Kenyan politics more completely than they have for a decade (AC Vol 43 Nos 1 & 2)...