When Mwai Kibaki ate Nando's chips, Moi meeting intrigues, and the small matter of missing shoes

Mwai Kibaki marking his ballot from his limousine in Othaya, December 28, 2002. [File, Standard]

As his presidency swayed in the waves of a bitter fallout with Mr Raila Odinga–the man credited with catapulting him to the hallowed seat during the 2002 election–President Mwai Kibaki invited his predecessor, Mr Daniel arap Moi, to State House, Nairobi for consultations.

A bitter Odinga was literally furrowing the grounds on which Mr Kibaki’s top seat was perched at State House. Around the President were new power brokers like Dr Chris Murungaru, Ms Martha Karua, Mssrs David Mwiraria, Materi Keriri, Francis Muthaura and Kiraitu Murungi. All were still on the dance floor, gyrating to the National Rainbow Coalition anthem, feeling ‘unbwogable’ and invincible. It took them long to realise the music had stopped and the new president had put on a new song whose refrain was “sasa tufanye kazi” (Now let us get down to work).