Long live Nyayo! Asanteh Baba Moi,if only this quote was not published:(Courtesy Sunday Nation 8/31/2014) Mr Moi also loved surprises. On October 28, 1991, Prof Philip Mbithi received an important call; President Daniel arap Moi was on the other end of the line. “He asked whether there was something particularly troubling me. I told him I had not much to worry about except some money l owed the Agricultural Finance Corporation after I took a loan to purchase a ranch at Konza,” said Prof Mbithi during a past interview with the Daily Nation. Mr Moi invited the professor and his wife to State House the following morning. Like a true gentleman, he served them tea. Afterwards, the president reached for a briefcase under his desk and gave Prof Mbithi’s a couple stacks of bound notes. “He gave us not only the total sum we owed AFC, but some extra for “mboga ya watoto” (the children’s vegetables),” Prof Mbithi said. But Mr Moi also had a dual-personality, according to Prof Mbithi. On the day Prof Mbithi was fired as head of public service, the president summoned him to State House and, together, they came up with a list of changes in government. “As we parted, the president gave no hint that he had any problem with my work,” he said. “Then came the shocker: I learnt of my sacking over the 1 p.m. news.”
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