Kenya: Nine Reasons Moi is Not in Prison

1 September 2007
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Nairobi — Nearly five years after Mr Daniel arap Moi left office, he still holds forth on Kenyan politics. Contrary to expectations, he has only been engaged in Kenya's courts five times - each at the behest of individuals or civil society organisations.

Not once has the Government filed a suit to try to make the former president account for numerous misdeeds committed during his tenure at the top. Some of the sore thumbs of that era are human rights abuses epitomised in the Nyayo House Torture Chambers, official looting exemplified in the fictitious gold and diamonds export scandal known as the Goldenberg Affair, and the unresolved deaths of several prominent people. All these are offences which, if proved, should have seen some people jailed.

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