Kenya's former President Daniel arap Moi has died at the age of President Uhuru Kenyatta announced his death, saying the nation had lost a "great man".
Mr Moi was Kenya's longest-serving president. He was in office for 24 years, until intense pressure forced him to step down in His critics saw him as an authoritarian ruler who oversaw rampant corruption, but his allies credited him for maintaining stability in the country.
In , Mr Moi asked for forgiveness from "those he had wronged". President Kenyatta has declared a period of mourning, including the flying of flags at half-mast, until a state funeral is held for Mr Moi.
No date has been set for the funeral. Mr Kenyatta said the continent was "immensely blessed by the dedication" of the late president, who spent "almost his entire adult life serving Kenya and Africa". Kenya's former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who was detained by the Moi regime for campaigning for multi-party democracy, praised him for introducing "incremental" reforms said that in retirement the former president had "conducted himself with complete dignity befitting an elder statesman".
Daniel Moi orchestrated the largest theft of tax payer coffers in the 90's. Over Billion KShs was stolen via the Goldenberg scandal. Yet Kenyans have the nerve to praise this guy? Daniel Arap moi brutally murdered Dr. Robert Ouko Seda. To Moi, anyone who opposed his regime was writing their own orbituaries. Rest in peace wuod Nyahera. Others praised Mr Moi for his focus on improving the health of schoolchildren.
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Former Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi, who ruled the country with an iron fist between and , has died aged 95, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced. Moi's year rule saw his country become a one-party state where critical voices were crushed, corruption became endemic and tribal divisions were stoked and turned bloody.
He ordered a period of national mourning until a state funeral is held, on a date not yet announced. The former president died early Tuesday morning at his family home in Kenya's west, Kenyatta added. In , Moi yielded to public pressure at home and abroad for a multiparty state, including a demonstration where police killed more than 20 people.
Multiparty elections in and were marred by political and ethnic violence that critics blamed on the state. Moi often blamed the West for bad publicity and the economic hardships that many Kenyans endured during his rule. Kenyans voted for a new constitution that was implemented in and made provisions to bar personality cults. It is a day to remember that the current crop of politicians helped him escape justice for his crimes.
Salim Lone, a former U. Kenyatta ordered national flags lowered to half-staff until after Moi was buried.
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