How Moi kicked off torture era to rattle dissidents
An undated photo of former MP George Moseti Anyona. At the beginning of Daniel Moi's regime, Anyona called for the amendment of the Kanu constitution. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Shortly after he took power in 1978, Kenya's President Daniel arap Moi was concerned about the critics he had inherited from the Jomo Kenyatta government.
While he had ordered the release of all political detainees and offered a lifeline to all those ostracised by the Kenyatta government, he was increasingly jittery about the academics and “Marxists” stationed at the University of Nairobi.
