The men and women who served under President Moi

 To avoid the humiliation of being fired from the Cabinet, Kones surrendered his ministerial flag and official limousine at the Mau Summit General Service Unit post located on the Nakuru-Eldoret highway but the officer-in-charge refused to accept them. [Archive, Standard]

They came in all shades, miens, moods and backgrounds. From suave intellectuals, such as Kenya’s fifth Vice President the historian Dr Josephat Karanja, to the simple politicians hoisted from rural Kenya to the skyscrapers of Nairobi and more significantly, dizzying positions of power where their word was the law.