Daniel toroitich arap moi biography of albert
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Former President of the Republic of Kenya, H.E. Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi, has Died. The former president passed on peacefully in his sleep today, Tuesday 4th February 2020 at his home. President Uhuru Kenyatta, the current president, who announced the death, declared a period of national mourning and said Mr. Moi would receive a state funeral. His statement did not specify a cause of death.
He grew up in the church among missionaries from a young age and his adoption of Christianity would come to define alot in his later years. He remained active throughout his life attending church services every week and building and supporting church projects all over the country. He remained an ardent member of the African Inland Church in Kenya, the church set up in Kenya by the African Inland Missionaries in Kenya.
Fifteen years after Kenya won independence from Britain in 1963, Mr. Moi became president on the death of Jomo Kenyatta, the country’s founding father. Mr. Moi, a former school
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Daniel arap Moi
President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002
This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. As such, this person should normally be referred to by their given name, Daniel.
Daniel Toroitich arap MoiCGH (MOH-ee; 2 September 1924 – 4 February 2020)[2] was a Kenyan politician who served as the second president of Kenya from 1978 to 2002. He is the country's longest-serving president to date. Moi previously served as the third vice president of Kenya from 1967 to 1978 under President Jomo Kenyatta, becoming the president following the latter's death.[3]
Born into the Tugen sub-group of the Kalenjin people in the Kenyan Rift Valley, Moi studied as a boy at the Africa Inland Mission school before training as a teacher at the Tambach teachers training college, working in that profession until 1955. He then entered politics and was elected a member of the Legislative Council for Rift Valley. As independence approached, Moi joined the K
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Mayor of Nairobi
The mayor of Nairobi was the non-executive head of Nairobi City Council in Nairobi, Kenya until the new constitution of 2010 which devolved government was enacted. The mayor's office, officially the Mayor’s Palour, was located at City entré Nairobi. The last mayor of Nairobi was George Aladwa of ODM, elected on 10 August 2011.[1]
There was no mayor of Nairobi from 1983 to 1992 because the City Council of Nairobi was replaced bygd the City Commission appointed by then president Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi. The City Council was restored after the multi-party elections of 1992. In the year 2013 the office of mayor ceased to exist since under the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 local governments were replaced by county governments.
The following fryst vatten a list of the mayors of Nairobi from the time the city was a colonial town.
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[edit]1. "Arrival Of Oliver Lyttleton In Kenya". Pathé News. Retrieved 17 April 2019.