Monday, August 23, 2010

Moi aide refutes media claims on Kenyatta death

By STELLA MWANGI

Former President Moi's private secretary Lee Njiru has refuted claims by one of the dailies claiming Mr Moi went into hiding after the death of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.

Mr Njiru said when Kenyatta died, Moi, the then Vice-President was in his Kabarak home in Nakuru and not in Baringo, as claimed by a daily newspaper.

"It was in Kabarak where the Coast PC at the time, the late Eliud Mahihu, contacted Moi and informed him of Kenyatta’s death.

Immediately he received the news, he added, Moi woke up his duty driver and travelled by road to Nakuru Town, about 29km away.

"At Nakuru he met and travelled with his bodyguards who were staying in Manyatta and Mau View lodges," he said.

Njiru said Moi then immediately left for Nairobi at dawn arriving there before 7am and, therefore, the story about the low flying planes in search of Moi in bushes in Baringo was not only untrue, but also ridiculous.

"Enriching facts with such heavy doses of fiction can only be good for a movie and not an authentic record of history," he said.

a great disservice

Njiru, who is also the director of Moi’s communication and a former information officer in Kenyatta’s Presidential Press Service, said it was wrong for former Attorney General Charles Njonjo to term him reckless for accusing Kenyatta aides and top advisers of neglecting him during his hour of need.

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