Like the vast majority of the country’s youth, he had little or no recollection of those days when Mr Moi strode Kenya like a colossus. I wanted to give a standard textbook response like: “Those were the dark days of corruption in every public institution. It was not like we were hedonistic or anything; it was just our way of coping with the times. We were, as “Baba na Mama” Moi often told us, an island of peace in the midst of instability in the region. However, things are not the way they were under President Moi.

Source: Daily Nation May 28, 2017 19:52 UTC