Uhuru, Ruto created Fred Matiang'i and must protect, defend him

Interior CS Fred Matiang'i. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Sometimes between 1982 and 1983, Simeon Nyachae, sympathetic to President Daniel Moi who had just survived a coup attempt, began to organise a series of harambees at Gusii Stadium for schools in Kisii.

This he did by occasionally inviting Moi as the chief guest. Such moments with the Head of State were one of the post-coup events that would ultimately change Kenya's politics and cause the downfall of Charles Njonjo and his supporters, and help Nyachae to entrench Moi as his own man.