Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (Nyayo)

Mwau began his career in 1968 in the police where he still has influence and in 1997 he headed the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) for six months before being dismissed by President Daniel arap Moi...

He represented a former Permanent Secretary of Internal Affairs (and President Daniel arap Moi’s one-time security chief) Zakayo Cheruiyot in the Anglo-Leasing case having opposed proponents of reform in the 1990s at the height of the agitation for a new constitution...

Refinery politics When President Daniel Toroitich arap Moi’s government liberalised the oil sector in 1994 the refinery served as a barrier to other smaller companies trying to enter the market...

Gichuru ran KPLC from 1983 to 2003 and enjoyed close links with former President Daniel arap Moi...

Cables listed Orange Democratic Movement leaders suspected of ‘inciting and organising inter-ethnic violence’ as William Ole Ntimama ex-President Daniel arap Moi’s internal security boss Zakayo Cheruiyot Kabando wa Kabando and Musa Cherutich Sirma...

In 2000 he awarded record damages for libel to Nicholas Kipyator Biwott the strongman of Daniel arap Moi’s regime who had sued the publishers of Iain West’s Casebook for implicating him in the murder of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko...

Clients of Kigen a highly political lawyer have included former President Daniel arap Moi his bag man Joshua Kulei (AC Vol 49 No 15) Yagnesh Devani of the Triton oil scandal (AC Vol 50 No 4) Eldoret politician Jackson Kibor (implicated in the 2007 violence) and two other politicians charged with hate speech...

With Joshua Kulei (personal assistant to ex-President Daniel arap Moi) and Moi’s former Lands Commissioner Sammy Mwaita (who replaced Moi’s son Gideon as MP for Baringo Central) Ruto faces charges of selling forest land to the Kenya Pipeline Company...

Independence alliance The run-up to the referendum saw an attempt to consolidate the pre-Independence alliance between the Kikuyu and the Luo as well as a push to marginalise ex-President Daniel arap Moi his Kalenjin Masai Turkana and Samburu 'orphans' who lost out when Kibaki came to power in 2002 and Ruto Odinga's former ally in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...

Both William Ruto and ex-President Daniel arap Moi whipped up local support for the No vote...