They muster enough nationwide support to wound Moi's Uhuru project but not to kill it and their weight was reduced last week by the loss of Transport Minister Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya/Western) an amiable but spineless figure...
The merger prompted Moi to demonstrate the new party's inclusiveness by doling out four vice-chairmanships to: Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu); Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya); Katana Ngala (Giriama/Coastal); and Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba)...
KANU's main Luhya figures Transport and Communications Minister Musalia Mudavadi and Minister for Rural Development Cyrus Jirongo are not rebels like the Luo elite...
That task might require more experienced hands than either Uhuru Kenyatta or the Western-favoured Wycliff Musalia Mudavadi...
The four new vice-chairmen Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya) Uhuru Kenyatta (Kikuyu) Katana Ngala (Giriama/Coastal) and Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba) have no specific functions other than those Moi assigns them...
He has three options: to stay put via a constitutional device; to hand over to KANU's old bruisers such as Nicholas Kipyator Biwott and George Saitoti; or to pass the baton to the younger generation such as Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi and Uhuru Kenyatta...
More recently the Transport and Communications Minister Musalia Mudavadi (favoured in KANU as Moi's successor) said the government would reopen talks with Mount Kenya...
KANU apparatchiks complain that the NDP is getting too many favours and the merger has renewed the rivalry between KANU-A and KANU-C (Musalia Mudavadi Katana Ngala Bonaya Adhi Godana)...
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He also wants to amend the constitution via parliament to provide for a ceremonial president (Moi or Nicholas Biwott) a Vice-President (Musalia Mudavadi) and Prime Minister (Odinga)...
Naikuni and his Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi have now set up a tribunal to investigate complaints both from major companies eliminated in the early stages of the competition such as Deutsche Telekom and Malaysia Telecom and from five of the short-listed companies...
Naikuni said his Minister (former Finance Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi) would be appointing a three-member tribunal to consider appeals on CCK decisions...