Two sons of former Kenya President Daniel Arap Moi have won two parliamentary seats from Central Rift Valley constituencies.
Gideon Moi, who represented Baringo Central between 2002 and 2007, won the senate seat, despite high-profile campaigns by Jubilee presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto to elect Rev. Jackson Kosgei of URP.
Mr Moi’s other son, Raymond, trounced Mr Ruto’s ally Luka Kigen, to bag the Rongai constituency seat. Both flew Kanu flags.
The election of two of Moi’s sons must have come as a comfort for the retired president who in 2007 bore the ire of ODM supporters who destroyed his property for supporting Mwai Kibaki.
In the previous elections, Mr Moi had lined up three of his sons, Raymond, Jonathan and Gideon, with the former managing to succeed him in the Baringo Central seat in 2002. In 2007 none of them withstood the ODM wave.
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