In those years ALL wealthy people who were arrested slept in their own beds. They would pay a certain amount and arrange to be picked up from somewhere in town for the ritual of being seen descending from a black maria. It was counted as an arrest. Only exceptions were enemies of the state.
I know for aa fact Pattni never spent a single minute at Industrial area prison. Oyugi was given a chair in the prison commandant's office where he made calls met his people and slept in the nice bedroom of the boss.
ALL those "jailed" in that period never spent a day in prison. The condition was they stay at home to avoid embarrassing someone. There were "accidents" literally when some would be involved in road accidents or other matters forcing the system to embark on a huge coverup. The "fee" was shared between Police Commissioner and prison bosses with the rest reaching the Internal Security minister.
Biwott got a discount. A big discount. Or should I say a knocked down price of 0
Ruto is nearest you've got to a complete politician. It will take you some years to achieve my level of punditry where I am so accurate you think I was the "rigging" scheme .
Biwott was powerful all thro' till 2000. The arrest everyone knew was faked. Nobody even saw Biwott in any prison. Biwott equally smart - had fought & survived many attempts as you can expect to shove him from Moi's inner trusted advisors. All had failed - except Ruto succeeded in 2001. Biwott plan all along had been to have Saitoti as Pork and him as Dpork. For 10yrs Moi had been made to believe this was the best plan for kenya. Then in come Ruto -after trying to beat Saitoti-Biwwot (KANU A) with other young upstarts(KANU B) - he changed tact - he made friends with Gideon Moi & Uhuru Kenyatta - Gideon as Moi fav son had unfettered access to statehouse (like Mama Ngina or Muhoho now )--he was little interested in politics but mainly making money from dodgy deals & blowing that money abroad. They started feeding senile Moi with tall stories, blocked Biwott & Saitoti from Kitchen cabinet & soon enough - Moi was sold to Uhuru Kenyatta PORK. The engine behind all this was one William Ruto. William knew the two boozos were never going to really care about politics - just getting stoned or playing polo or casinos - and he'd ran the GOK. Raila Tosha of course saved us and gave us Kibaki. Ruto by 2022 will have had 20 more years of experience - with 10yr as DPORK - and you expect some feckless kikuyu mafia to stop such a man HOW? Maybe they assassinate the man.
And please Moi is just like done. He is so senile I am told when he wakes up he wants to be taken to the cows (kaptich in Kalenjin) and before he gets there he is back a sleep. So nowadays the sons have arranged he's driven around the compound and back to his bed. To imagine someone whose in such shape can still play politics is witchcraft. When is the last time you saw or heard Moi speak or attend any function. Moi is over. Gideon the son is still trying to figure out why it's not Uhuru-Moi as was originally agreed.
One day I will share with you what I know about the relationship between Moi and Biwott.
One or two incidents mean nothing. Moi even threw Biwot in Jail - remember? They remained friends and Biwott was instrumental in beating Matiba and FORD. Kabrak operated on cannibalism. Moi would let in a new person - preferably poor and allow him to gorged himself with money, land and whatever else. They then arranged to knock him down. Remember Kanyingi? Ruto's time had just not arrived. Moi needed him to cut Chesire to size.
Ruto should pray that Moi dies this year. If he doesn't Ruto will not DP (if they read Muigai's judgment tomorrow) or alive if they lose and go home. Moi is not happy that he has upstaged his son. Tell him to find out the deal between mama Ngina, Muhoho's and Moi then he can sleep easy. I could tell you more but that would be helping the enemy.
As for fitina, that is what will knock him out. His love for matusi turns Omollo into an altar boy.