Exposed: Jonathan Moi’s love for his mother was reason why Mzee Moi isolated him

For most of her life, Lenah Moi was only known at her Kabimoi Village where she lived a rural-woman’s life after her divorce with Daniel arap Moi – and at times with no means of transport.

She had no qualms using a matatu and when Ibrahim Choge – her son-in-law and Jonathan’s rallying co-driver died in a road accident – Lenah took a matatu from Eldama Ravine to Nandi Hills as other mourners arrived in fuel guzzlers and helicopters.

She sat amongst the common mourners away from the high table and when the burial was over, she went back the same way she had come to her house whose leaking roof on the bedroom side had made her take the bed to the sitting room.

After the divorce in 1974, Moi took the kids to Kabarak Farm save for Jonathan who, then aged twenty, chose to stay with his mother eventually setting up his home in Kabimoi.

Jonathan took after his mother by being a village man often imbibing beer with the locals whom he socialised with on regular basis.

It is this association and fondness of his mother which made Moi strive to ensure that he did not capture the Eldama Ravine parliamentary seat twice

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