In the first open presidential elections in a quarter century, in December 1992, Moi won with 37 % of the vote, Matiba received 26 %, Mwai Kibaki ( of the mostly Kikuyu Democratic Party ) 19 %, and Odinga 18 %.

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

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

In 1981, his novel, Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie (' I, Antoine of Tounens, King of Patagonia '), won the Grand Prix du Roman ( award for a novel ) of the Académie française.

In Moi, Elijah Masinde saw a dictator who had to be stopped or deny the people of Kenya the freedom they had won from the British Imperialists.

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.

Tabor won the Derby again, with Pour Moi in 2011 and with Camelot in 2012, the year that horse also took the 2, 000 Guineas and the Irish Derby at the Curragh, though he missed out on the Triple Crown by finishing second in the St Leger.

President Moi won the elections on KANU's ticket, while Matiba placed second.

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

Moi was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 presidential elections.

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.

In June 1992, during the lengthy protest at Uhuru Park, both Maathai and President arap Moi travelled to Rio de Janeiro for the UN Conference on Environment and Development ( Earth Summit ).

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 ).

* 1992 Perfect, Daddy K Et Moi, as Benny B

Ruto was Organising Secretary of Youth for Kanu ' 92 ( YK92 ), a group that was formed to drum up support for President Daniel arap Moi in the 1992 election.

Considered by some as one of the best leaders that never became president, it has been speculated that had he not died, he may have beaten Daniel arap Moi for the presidency in 1992.

Had Masinde Muliro not died, the original FORD would have remained united and possibly would have removed president Moi in 1992.

In a humorous epilogue prior to the credits, the following is revealed: Verena goes on to publish Moi, one of the most-read women's publications in the world ; Odette becomes a congresswoman and declares war on the tobacco industry ; Momo is a scientist developing the first male oral contraceptive ; Tinka, a famous actress, ironically comes out to Barbara Walters in a 1997 interview ; Tweety became a psychologist and wrote a best-seller about bulimia ; Abby, a radical political activist, is serving a prison sentence for a 1970 bank holdup ; and Miss Godard's is still a girls school.

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.

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

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.

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

In 1999 the findings of NGOs like Amnesty International and a special investigation by the United Nations were published which indicated that human rights abuses were prevalent in Kenya under the Moi regime.

Moi owns the Kiptagich Tea Factory, which was established in 1979, which has been involved in controversy.

Rebuilding, modernization and expansion of infrastructure has been going on in earnest, with several ambitious infrastructural and other projects, which would have been seen as unattainable pipe dreams during the bland and largely stagnant Moi years, planned or ongoing.

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.

Changamwe: Industrial area which contains the Kipevu power generation projects, the Kenya Oil Refinery Company facility and housing estates such as Chaani and is the gateway to the Moi International Airport.

Larry Hayes, formerly of the Lamont Cranston Band, wrote " Excusez Moi Mon Cheri " which The Blues Brothers recorded.

Mana has formed his own solo project Moi dix Mois, which has performed live concerts across Europe.

In 1971 she co-starred with Jacques Brel in a film he directed titled Franz for which she wrote the theme song, " Moi, je me balance ".

The report said that records presented at the inquiry showed that Lima Ltd, which is associated with Mr Gideon Moi, Mr Nicholas Biwott, and two other people received Sh6. 3 million from Goldenberg.

Members of the former National Democratic Party NDP of Raila Odinga which had joined KANU only in summer 2001 left the then ruling party together with KANU politicians who were opposed to what they perceived as imposition of Kenyatta as candidate by the then president Moi.

After leaving KANU they did not take the risk of attempting to register a new party under a government controlled by Moi but instead opted to join the existing LDP which offered them a space.

" " 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 largest employer in Moi is NorDan, which is the biggest window factory in northern Europe.

Moi is also home to Moen Bjøllefabrikk, a bell manufacturer, which was the official supplier of small bells to the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics and the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics.

When it became apparent that Maathai was going to win the election, Maendeleo Ya Wanawake, a member organization which represented a majority of Kenya's rural women and whose leader was close to arap Moi, withdrew from the NCWK.

Almost clocking ten years in the vice presidency, Daniel arap Moi was supposedly seen as a soft target for the hard-line Gema, which having gone through the tougher motions of diffusing Jaramogi, Mboya and JM.

But Masinde was still not happy with the Moi regime which perpetuated corruption, impunity abuse of the basic human rights.

The delegation ’ s return was a public event reported by the Kenyan media and newspaper reports, which are still available, carried photographs of President Moi and Dr Ouko coming out of the plane together and doing the welcoming rounds at Jomo Kenyatta airport.