Kihika kimani biography of christopher
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THE current clamour by a certain section of the political class across the board to change Kenya’s constitution is not anything new; we have been here before.
Kihika kimani biography of christopher
Two years before the death of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, in August 1978, and after the hotly contested 1974 general election, this clamour reached its zenith, with its protagonists coming out openly to hold public barazas across the country to caution people about the danger of having one Daniel arap Moi succeeding Jomo.
This group wanted the constitution changed so that a vice president could not automatically become president upon the death of the president, an amendment that would have made it impossible for Moi to succeed Jomo. Moi was a Kalenjin from Baringo and the so-called “Kiambu Mafia” despised him and could not in their wildest dreams countenance the fact that a non-Kikuyu could ascend to State House.
Nearly forty years later, in February 2018, a little-known and first time MP for Tiaty constituency