How Moi's Bodyguard Stopped Him From Exposing Himself To Snipers

Special Focus On General Lazarus Sumbeiywo's Biography

Retired General Lazarus Sumbeiywo’s description of the happenings during the 1982 coup attempt raises a lot of questions and creates confusion due to many inconsistencies with earlier, widely circulated reports.

The General describes in great detail what the military codenamed then Operation maji machafu meaning dirty water and aptly described bringing the President from Nakuru to Nairobi (wading dirty water) in the midst of unaccounted for rebel Air Force soldiers who were on the run and had taken refuge amongst ordinary cibilians shortly after the coup was crashed. The only problem is that the account contradicts even known evidence on the ground at the time.

I personally viewed President Moi’s Televised address to the nation on the evening of August 1st 1982 and what I saw was not a confident President eager to address wananchi as the book tries to convince us. In fact President Moi was clearly very shaken and he looked terrified with tears visibly in his eyes. The events that followed including a total transformation in his leadership style and the purge on mostly imagined enemies of the state does not tally with what is in the General’s biography about a confident president unfazed and keen to meet the public and restore confidence.

The book describes an incident where the president was eager to address a crowd at Kenya Cinema but his ADC Major Ikenye was insistent that he does not open the hatch at the top of the presidential limousine to wave to the people. The book says that the ADC feared that the president would be exposed to snipers. Rather dramatically the account goes on to reveal that the very next day some airforce soldiers were flushed out of hiding in the very same building.
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