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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.
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Moi and army
* 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.
Among the children are Gideon Moi ( a former MP ), Jonathan Toroitich ( a former rally driver ) and Philip Moi ( a retired army officer ).
Moi and Luo
Moi's closest associate was implicated in Ouko's murder ; Moi dismissed him but not before his remaining Luo support had evaporated.
Moi and Kikuyu
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 %.
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.
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.
The new President of Kenya, Daniel arap Moi, was attempting to limit the amount of influence those of the Kikuyu ethnicity held in the country, including in volunteer civic organizations such as the NCWK.
Moi and by
Kenyatta was succeeded by Daniel arap Moi, who ruled until 2002.
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.
Moi won elections in 1992 and 1997, which were overshadowed by political killings on both sides.
Kenyatta died in 1978 and was succeeded by Daniel Arap Moi ( b. 1924 ) who ruled as President 1978-2002.
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.
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 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.
Almost simultaneously, two shoulder-launched Strela 2 ( SA-7 ) surface-to-air missiles were fired at another chartered Boeing 757 airliner owned by Israel-based Arkia Airlines as it took off from Moi International Airport.
Moi was born in Kurieng ' wo village, Sacho division, Baringo District, Rift Valley Province, and was raised by his mother Kimoi Chebii following the early death of his father.
With an eye on the fertile lands of the rift valley populated by members of Moi's Kalenjin tribe, Kenyatta secured their support by first promoting Moi to Minister for Home Affairs in 1964, and then to vice-president in 1967.
Moi won elections in 1992 and 1997, which were marred by political violence on both sides.
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.
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.
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.
After leaving office in December 2002, Moi lived in retirement, largely shunned by the political establishment.
A group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants then quit KANU in protest after being overlooked by outgoing President Moi when Moi had founding Father Jomo Kenyatta's son, Uhuru Kenyatta, nominated to be the KANU presidential candidate, and hurriedly formed the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ).
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.
Moi and ethnic
Moi, a member of the Kalenjin ethnic group, quickly consolidated his position and governed in an authoritarian and corrupt manner.
Moi ruled using a strategic mixture of ethnic favoritism, state repression, and marginalization of opposition forces.
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 and clashes
He was released by the government of Daniel arap Moi in 1978, Moi also arrested him following his clashes with traffic policemen in Webuye and Kitale.
Moi and from
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.
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.
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 prisoners were coerced to confess that they had spat on the Cross: " Moi Raymond de La Fère, 21 ans, reconnais que ( J ' ai ) craché trois fois sur la Croix, mais de bouche et pas de coeur " ( free translation: " I, Raymond de La Fère, 21 years old, admit that I have spat three times on the Cross, but only from my mouth and not from my heart ").
Since the mid-19th century, Paris has been known as Paname () in the Parisian slang called argot ( File: ltspkr. png Moi j ' suis d ' Paname, i. e. " I'm from Paname ").
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.
In his song " Ne me quitte pas ", for example, Brel evocatively states, " Moi, je t ' offrirai / Des perles de pluie / Venues de pays / Où il ne pleut pas " ( I, I'll offer you / Pearls of rain / That come from countries / Where it doesn't rain ).
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi ( born 2 September 1924 ) is a Kenyan politician who was the President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002.
Moi was elected to the Kenyan parliament in 1963 from Baringo North.
Moi was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 presidential elections.
When Daniel arap Moi succeeded Jomo Kenyatta as President of Kenya in 1978, Kibaki was elevated to Vice Presidency, and kept the Finance portfolio until Moi changed his ministerial portfolio from Finance to Home Affairs in 1982.
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.
A young, pretentious and over-religious Frenchman from Joyous Garde named Lancelot du Lac has heard of the Round Table, and is determined to come to Camelot and join Arthur's knights, confident that he is perfect for the post, (" C ' est Moi ").
Juka and Kazuno were employed from Moi dix Mois ' conception, with Tohru being a support drummer originally.
* Moi University in Eldoret ( established in 1980s with major support from the Indiana University School of Medicine-USA, and with whom there remain significant ties )
In 1957 Rouch directed in Côte d ' Ivoire " Moi un noir " with the young Nigerien filmmaker Oumarou Ganda, who had recently returned from French military service in Indochina.
Toi et Moi achieved great success in Japan and from 1969 to 1973 released on average of 2 albums and 4 singles a year.
Musyoka served in the government under President Daniel arap Moi and was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998 ; subsequently, under President Mwai Kibaki, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2003 to 2004, then Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005.
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