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

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

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

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.

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.

The continuity between Kibaki and Moi set the stage for the self-destruction of Kibaki's National Rainbow Coalition, which was dominated by Kikuyus.

The post of Chief of the General Staff was only filled again seven years later when Daniel arap Moi moved Lieutenant General Jackson Mulinge from Army Commander to CGS in November 1978.

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.

In 1989 Richard Leakey was appointed the head of the Wildlife Conservation and Management Department ( WMCD ) by President Daniel Arap Moi in response to the international outcry over the poaching of elephants and the impact it was having on the wildlife of Kenya.

Richard Leakey, President Arap Moi and the WMCD made the international news headlines when a stock pile of 12 tons of ivory was burned in 1989 in Nairobi National Park.

Daniel Toroitich arap Moi ( born 2 September 1924 ) is a Kenyan politician who was the President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002.

Daniel arap Moi is popularly known to Kenyans as " Nyayo ", a Swahili word for " footsteps ", as he was said to be following the footsteps of the first Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta.

In 1955 Moi entered politics when he was elected Member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley.

In 1957 Moi was re-elected Member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley.

As a member of a minority tribe Moi was also an acceptable compromise for the major tribes.

Moi was elected to the Kenyan parliament in 1963 from Baringo North.

At that time Kenya had received much foreign aid, and the country was accepted as being well governed with Moi as a legitimate leader and firmly in charge.

However, a new thinking emerged after the end of the Cold War, and as Moi became increasingly viewed as a despot, foreign aid was withheld pending compliance with economic and political reforms.

Moi was implicated in the 1990s Goldenberg scandal and subsequent cover-ups, where the Kenyan government subsidized exports of gold far in excess of the foreign currency earnings of exporters.

In October 2006, Moi was found, by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, to have taken a bribe from a Pakistani businessman to award monopoly of duty free shops at the country's international airport in Mombasa and Nairobi.

** Elizabeth Choy ( Yong Su Moi ) 蔡楊素梅 / 蔡杨素梅 ( 1910-2006 ; born in Malaysia ), War heroine ; First and only woman to be on the Legislative Council of Singapore, 1951

** Sir Moilin Jean Ah-Chuen 朱梅麟 ( 1909-1991 ; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ; Hakka pronunciation: Chu Moi Lin ), First Chinese member, Legislative Council, 1949 ; Minister of Local Government, 1967 – 1976 ; Second Hakka after Sun Yatsen to have his portrait printed on the bills of a country's currency

Daniel arap Moi married Lena Moi ( born Helena Bommet ) in 1950, but they separated in 1974, before his presidency.

" Moi " stands for his debut as a solo artist ; " Dix " stands for the number ten and while one symbolizes the beginning of something, zero means something similar to " eternity "; " dix mois ", again, means " ten months ", the average time a baby grows inside its mother's womb before being born ( the Japanese traditionally count gestation in lunar months ).

" " One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman ", or as Toril Moi puts it " a woman defines herself through the way she lives her embodied situation in the world, or in other words, through the way in which she makes something of what the world makes of her ".

The singer Elvira Nikolaisen was born in Moi.

Pete Sanstol, Norway's only boxing world champion, was born in Moi.

* Daniel arap Moi ( born 1924 ), President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002

* Gideon Moi ( born 1964 ), Kenyan politician and youngest son of Daniel arap Moi

* Toril Moi ( born 1953 ), Duke University professor

* Mr. Moto Takes a Chance ( 1938 ) — Undercover as an archeologist in Thailand, Moto is trying to find out who is the head of a revolutionary army that is smuggling guns and explosives into the tiny village of Tong Moi.

The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Moi.

Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani, a 13th century historian, stated that " Subuktageen died in the village of ( Bermel Madwari, or Madar wa Moi, or Madawri, or Madraiwi, or Barmel Maderwi ).

* Moi, a village in Bâlteni Commune, Gorj County, Romania

* Moi, Aust-Agder, Norway, a village

A few of their singles were hits in France, such as La fête au village (" The village party ") ( 2nd in the 1989 charts ), Moi j ' aime les filles (" Me, I like girls ") ( 12th in the 1989 charts ), Merguez party ( 25th in the 1990 charts ) and the Musclada ( 8th in the 1992 charts ).

The reelection of President Moi and KANU, both deeply unpopular, owed much to the division of the original FORD.

* Gideon Moi, Retired President Moi's son, also the Baringo Central MP

Moi International Airport and the Port Reitz District Hospital are in Port Reitz.

FORD-Asili's candidate Kenneth Matiba polled second to KANU's Daniel Toroitich arap Moi in 1992 and won 31 parliamentary seats, dominating Muranga District in Central Province and garnering a credible portion of the votes in Eastern and Western Provinces.

Kabianga University College A constituent of Moi University, which is at kericho West District located next at kabianga high School where ATC Training College was.