Kenyatta was succeeded by Daniel arap Moi, who ruled until 2002.

Kenyatta died in 1978 and was succeeded by Daniel Arap Moi ( b. 1924 ) who ruled as President 1978-2002.

Daniel arap Moi the former President of Kenya who ruled for 24 years was KADU's chairman and attended the Lancaster House Conferences with Ronald Ngala.

Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka, ( alias Awour ) ( July 23, 1953 – July 9, 1987 ) was Senior Private in the Kenya Air Force, who ruled Kenya for about six hours after planning and executing a coup against president Daniel arap Moi on August 1, 1982.

It steered Kenya to side with the west during the cold war, with both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi using apparent links to the Soviet Union as pretexts to crush political dissent.

About 20 minutes earlier, an unsuccessful attempt was made to shoot down an Arkia Israel Airlines Boeing 757 chartered tourist plane taking off from nearby Moi International Airport using surface-to-air missiles ; nobody was hurt on the plane, which landed safely in Tel Aviv.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam has adopted a similar model after the Doi Moi economic renovation, but slightly differs from the Chinese model in that the Vietnamese government retains firm control over the state sector and strategic industries, but allows for private-sector activity in commodity production.

Moi, a member of the Kalenjin ethnic group, quickly consolidated his position and governed in an authoritarian and corrupt manner.

Moi sponsored irregular army units that attacked the Luo, Luhya, and Kikuyu communities, and he disclaimed responsibility by assigning the violence to ethnic clashes arising from a land dispute.

In the military ( and also the Police and GSU ), there is a virtual monopoly of President Moi ’ s ethnic group, the Kalenjin, in the top brass.

Moi skillfully exploited Kenya's mix of ethnic tensions in these contests, with the ever present fear of the smaller tribes being dominated by the larger tribes.

Numerous state corporations that had collapsed during the Moi years have been revived and are performing profitably.

Doi Moi reforms led to the development of what is now referred to as the Socialist-oriented market economy, where the state plays a decisive role in the economy, but private enterprise and cooperatives play a significant role in commodity production.

Moi attempted to transform the de-facto single-party status of Kenya into a de-jure status during the 1980s, but with the end of the Cold War, the practices of political repression and torture which had been " overlooked " by the Western powers as necessary evils in the effort to contain communism were no longer tolerated.

However, Moi faced opposition from the Kikuyu elite known as the Kiambu Mafia, who would have preferred one of their own to be eligible for the presidency.

Moi managed to accomplish this against fierce opposition, single handedly convincing the delegates at the KANU conference at Kasarani in December, 1991.

In the absence of an effective and organised opposition Moi had no difficulty in winning.

Kibaki came third in the subsequent presidential elections of 1992, when the divided opposition lost to president Moi and KANU despite having received more than two thirds of the vote.

He then came second to Moi in the 1997 elections, when again, Moi beat a divided opposition to retain the presidency.

The attempt to reduce the personal power the Presidency that had been accumulated by former President Moi initially was the reason opposition forces sought to introduce the post of Prime Minister.

Nominated to Parliament in 2001, he became Minister for Local Government under President Daniel arap Moi and, despite his political inexperience, was favored by President Moi as his successor ; Kenyatta ran as KANU's candidate in the December 2002 presidential election, but lost to opposition candidate Mwai Kibaki by a large margin.

Previously, they were mainly associated with opposition to the Kalenjin-dominated reign of former President Daniel arap Moi.

Once regarded as the world's " most optimistic ," Kibaki's regime quickly lost much of its power because it became too closely linked with the discredited Moi forces.

The South African Institute for Security Studies wrote when Moi was still in power: " the Kenyan armed forces ’ reputation as a politically neutral establishment has been undermined by irrefutable evidence of tribal favouritism in the appointment of key posts.

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President Daniel Moi of Kenya issued a decree against it in December 2001.

Moi came under pressure, notably by US ambassador Smith Hempstone, to restore a multi-party system, which he did by 1991.

Moi won elections in 1992 and 1997, which were overshadowed by political killings on both sides.

At Kenyatta's death ( August 22, 1978 ), Vice President Daniel arap Moi became interim President.

On October 14, Moi became President formally after he was elected head of KANU and designated its sole nominee.

By 1986, Moi had concentrated all the power-and most of its attendant economic benefits-into the hands of his Kalenjin tribe and of a handful of allies from minority groups.

On August 1, 1982 lower-level air force personnel, led by Senior Private Grade-I Hezekiah Ochuka and backed by university students, attempted a coup d ' état to oust Moi.

Moi's closest associate was implicated in Ouko's murder ; Moi dismissed him but not before his remaining Luo support had evaporated.

Germany recalled its ambassador to protest the " increasing brutality " of the regime, and foreign donors pressed Moi to allow other parties, which was done in December 1991 through a constitutional amendment.

Obstructing the press both before and after the 1992 elections, Moi continually maintained that multiparty politics would only promote tribal conflict.

Under Moi, the apparatus of clientage and control was underpinned by the system of powerful provincial commissioners, each with a bureaucratic hierarchy based on chiefs ( and their police ) that was more powerful than the elected members of parliament.

President Moi won re-election as President in the December 1997 elections, and his KANU Party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority.

Beginning in 1998, Moi engaged in a carefully calculated strategy to manage the presidential succession in his and his party's favor.

Faced with the challenge of a new, multiethnic political coalition, Moi shifted the axis of the 2002 electoral contest from ethnicity to the politics of generational conflict.

Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

Voters rejected the Kenya African National Union's ( KANU ) presidential candidate, Uhuru Kenyatta, the handpicked candidate of outgoing president Moi.

However, social inequalities also increased ; the economic benefits went disproportionately to the already well-off ( especially to the Kikuyu ); corruption reached new depths, matching some of the excesses of the Moi years.