Not even the late Jomo Kenyatta's name could save his son Uhuru Kenyatta (KANU) a business partner of Moi's sons who lost Gatundu South by 12 000 votes to the Social Democratic Party's little known Moses Mwihia...
NCEC politicians Paul Muite Aloo Ogeka Ngengi Muigai (Jomo Kenyatta's nephew) Otieno Mak'Onyango Richard Leakey and James Orengo were beaten so brutally that most of them left in ambulances and had to be treated in hospital...
Jomo Kenyatta's son Uhuru has been approached to stand on a KANU ticket in the newly created Kiamwangi constituency about twenty miles north of Nairobi...
Yet anger simmers between the group led by party Chairman Mwai Kibaki and that led by Ngengi Muigai a nephew of the late President Jomo Kenyatta...
This concern dates back to the 1950s when settlers in the 'White Highlands' sought allies against the Kikuyu-dominated nationalists of the Mau-Mau and around Jomo Kenyatta...
The movement spread into the related Embu and Meru districts and was further encouraged by the government of Jomo Kenyatta (1963-78) himself a Kikuyu...