Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fueled by runaway corruption, has died
FILES) In this file photo taken on December 28, 1992 Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi, who is also the leader of the ruling Kenyan African National Union party shown brandishing a stick as he addresses members of his party.
So wary was Moi of any threat during that uncertain period that he fled his Rift Valley home when he heard of Kenyatta’s death, returning only after receiving assurances of his safety. Moi’s government then became more repressive in dealing with dissent, according to a report by the government’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission that assessed his rule.
Corruption, especially the illegal allocation of land, became institutionalised, the report said, while economic power was centralised in the hands of a few. By the time Moi left power in 2002, corruption had left Kenya’s economy, the most developed in East Africa, with negative growth.
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