Lolest! wrote:FRM2011 wrote:kawi254 wrote:"Mo1 was a good president before '82 coup attempt"
"Kamwana was a good president before the NASA(ODM) coup attempt"
In 1979, Moi announced he would take measures to redress the tribal inequality in the civil service. The Kikuyu were almost 50% in some govt offices. There was a massive demo in the streets of Nairobi with UoN students coming out in support of Moi. For doing the right thing.
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Wasn't it unfair to have 1 tribe occupying 50% of civil service?
It was grossly unfair. Moi was just doing the right thing.
But a very powerful narrative in our home area is that we are hated because we are hard-working. That the others are lazy. It is the lie every kid is told. Even the wretched of the earth who live in slums still believe the lie. Not the truth, that we were not fair to others.
And so Moi became the bogeyman around which politics revolved for two decades. After Moi's exit, we got a new bogeyman. He has served our politicians well. But he is exiting the scene in 2022.