Once Captain Charles Wachira flew then minister Nicholas Biwott, popularly known as ‘Total Man,’ to Eldoret. Retired British detective John Troon, who had been tasked by President Moi to conduct an independent inquiry, had implicated them in the killing. He told me; ‘kijana yanga (my son), always believe in God and be going to Church,” Wachira recalls Moi telling him. In 1983, he received a head of state’s commendation (military division) from President Moi for his role as an army helicopter gunship pilot in quelling the 1982 coup. During presidential campaigns in 2002, when President Moi had chosen Mr Uhuru Kenyatta as his preferred successor, Wachira recalls his encounter with candidate Kenyatta.
