[Kipsang Joseph/Standard]Crouched inside his official vehicle, trembling in fear, the 33-year-old journalist dared not peer out of the window. This is how Mr Njiru, who was on August 1, 1982 the deputy head of Presidential Press Unit, remembers how President Moi’s entourage cruised along Nairobi-Nakuru highway on their way to State House. He recalls that when a decision was made to evacuate the President from Kabarak to Nakuru State House and later to Nairobi, Moi refused to ride in an armoured car declaring that he was not a coward. Njiru recalls how everybody panicked when President Moi decided to go and inspect what had happened in the city centre. Up to the time he left office as Head of Presidential Press Unit in 2002, his house in Kileleshswa, Nairobi, was under 24 hour police protection.

Source: Standard Digital July 29, 2018 06:22 UTC