Emerging details indicate that former President Daniel Moi was sent to school as a punishment, after a series of failures in his younger days.
Moi was born in Sacho, Baringo in 1927.
In his biography, 'Moi at 90', the man who grew up at a time when boys watched over family livestock was sent to school because he was a bad herds boy.
And when missionaries came calling in 1930, asking parents to give out a boy to be enrolled in school, elders surrendered him, and that's how he embarked on his academic journey.
"On no day would he return home with a full herd: One or two animals would always be missing. The missionaries were God-sent as the elders immediately decided that that this boy [Moi] should be given to them,” a family member, Joseph Chesire, is quoted.
This is according to a Standard publication dated October 10, 2018, as the nation resumes Moi Day celebrations.
Moi would later grow to become a teacher, and later elected into the Legislative Council (LegCo) in 1955 to represent the Rift Valley region.
This was after the resignation of John Ole Tameno.
The former teacher championed for among others the union of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) in 1957.
Then the Baringo Central lawmaker, Moi was tipped to replace Joseph Murumbi as President Jomo Kenyatta's deputy in 1967.
And when Kenyatta died in August 1978, he took over and led the nation as its second President for 24 years, until his ouster in 2002.
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