The oddity of former Vice presidents Kalonzo, Mooddy Awori not speaking at Kibaki requiem

Former vice presidents who worked with the late President Mwai Kibaki were given a wide berth during the state funeral of Kibaki at the Nyayo National stadium. Moody Awori was Kibaki’s Vice-President from September 25, 2003 to January 9, 2008 after the death of Kibaki’s first vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa; while Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka deputized Kibaki from January 9, 2008 to March 2013.

Awori and Kalonzo, who were both at the Stadium to bid their former boss, did not get any opportunity to eulogize Kibaki at that forum. Nonetheless, Moody Awori, also Kibaki’s schoolmate at Mang’u High School, had paid tribute to his former boss on NTV where he called Kibaki, “A remarkable person, a likable, social and humorous person. I served under his government as an Assistant Minister for Home Affairs and also as his vice President. I  was older than him but he remained my boss. I was his elder brother and our chemistry worked well,’’ said Awori.