To move forward, we should all internalise Moi's 1978 speech

Immediately after he took over, Moi started conjuring a philosophy, which took 24 years to mature. Unfortunately, we rudely personalised it and emotively threw it away after Moi retired from politics in 2002. Eighteen years later, on February 4, 2020, former president Moi died, and the whole nation was cast into an apologetic mood. Even those who chastised the retired president at his lowest moments expressed, in daylight, their longing for the long-gone Moi era moments.

All and sundry revived memories of a paragon of statesmanship; a man who never fought back and reached out to forgive and be forgiven even when he had the power not to; a man who practiced what he preached for 24 years. The country spoke in one voice-and it was not hypocritical talk spoken of every man and woman upon their death. Of all the takeaways from the second president, his philosophy of peace, love, and unity is a universalisable socialist mantra that should have been pursued after he departed from politics.