Will ‘giraffe’ Moi succession plan be a dream come true for Raila Odinga?

President Jomo Kenyatta led his Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga through a triumphal arch in the garden of the Mwingi CDs home in kitui district. Behind Odinga is Daniel Moi. [File, Standard]

Kenya’s First Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga described Second President Daniel arap Moi as “a giraffe with a long neck that see very far.” That was four years before independence when both Moi and six others were elected to represent Africans in the colonial parliament.