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Many in the political establishment wanted to ensure that Kenya's first Attorney-General Charles Mugane Njonjo who died on 2 January had a 'respectful send-off'...
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Kibaki along with former Attorney General Charles Mugane Njonjo backed Daniel arap Moi then Kenyatta’s deputy...
Added to these are the 2007 Commission of Judge Saeed Cockar into the contentious sale of the Grand Regency Hotel (AC Vol 49 No 15) plus three other Moi commissions (on Charles Njonjo on Ouko and by Justice Augustus Akiwumi) and one under Kenyatta (on Kariuki)...
’ Wako has ignored most of the censure but a stinging attack by former Attorney General Charles Njonjo in which he called for Wako’s resignation forced him to make a rare public defence...
Some had begun to compare him to Charles Njonjo the veteran of both the Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi presidencies who during 20 years had built a political network...
The ceremony attracted southern Kikuyuland's elite: 'Sir' Charles Mugane Njonjo (the Anglophile former Attorney General); Mama Ngina Kenyatta (Jomo's widow Uhuru's mother); and Paul Muite (MP for Kabete) who has broken with the Kibaki government and is for practical purposes allied to the ODM...
Later that day Moi met privately with the veteran (Kikuyu Anglophile) power-broker Charles Njonjo who has long held Kibaki in low regard...
The two have been engaged in a 20-year feud dating back to when Muthoga presided over a discredited enquiry that forced Charles Njonjo one of Moi's most powerful rivals out of the cabinet on charges of treason...
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His astute Kikuyu advisor Charles Njonjo was disgraced and dropped oppositionists were detained and tortured and a de jure one-party state was reintroduced...
Moi's method was to bring in the Luo (as in 1983 following the purge of his then confidant Charles Mugane Njonjo)...