MWAI WON’T BE KIBAKI
Kenya’s 2002 presidential election was the third time the country held elections, and the first time it wasn’t rigged for a term-limited Daniel arap Moi. The winner, Mwai Kibaki, was a routine presence in Moi’s government (most prominently as Vice President) who ran against his reviled former boss’s party on an anti-corruption message. The promise Kibaki’s win offered was quickly followed with some of his better legacies, such as the introduction of free primary school education. However that hope quickly fizzled as his crony-filled cabinet used their offices to line their pockets. Kibaki indulged in much of the same, but was able to deflect most of the heat to his advisors thanks to his aloof intellectual aura. The free and fair 2002 elections were followed by the rigged 2007 ones, where Kibaki eked it out in an election where every serious political party committed electoral malpractice. Ethnic clashes from the aftermath grew so violent the UN had to step in. That, after all that, he was still considerably better than Moi speaks volumes about his predecessor! He was 90 and two world leader theme teams enrichen themselves the honest way.
Mwai Kibaki
15 November 1931 – 21 April 2022, aged 90
2 TEAMS (💀💀💀💀💀 5 POINTS)