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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.
Those who had dismissed Moi as a passing cloud started to fall in earnest. At the centre of this was Nyachae, who was quickly rising and growing stronger within the hierarchy of power. Together with Hezekiah Oyugi and Nicholas Biwott, they managed to deeply entrench and deploy themselves at the nerve of Moi's State.
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