It now emerges that a section of Mount Kenya leaders was so determined to retain power after the death of founding father Jomo Kenyatta that they were ready to engage in anything to realise that.
Apart from that, the group was also so much against then-Vice President Daniel Moi who would automatically rise to the top seat in case of a death, that they reportedly plotted his elimination in advance.
According to the 'Kenyatta Succession,' the team resulted in a movement dubbed Ngoroko, where they reportedly plotted to eliminate the VP at the Nakuru State House immediately after Kenyatta's death.
The plan was to blame him for the death, and allege that the angry presidential guard killed him.
Ironically, the plan was also to touch on their fellow tribesman and then Finance Minister Mwai Kibaki.
The two would be summoned to the palatial house and later doused in acid tanks already prepared.
According to a Daily Nation publication dated January 2006, among the plotters, was Isaiah Mwangi Mathenge, then the Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner (PC) and a no-nonsense ruler allied to Kenyatta.
It is the same group that also plotted the constitutional change that would as well be used to deny Moi the right to assume power after Kenyatta's looming death.
Moi, however, still managed to take over after Kenyatta's death in 1978, after which Mathenge was transferred to Eastern province before winning the Nyeri town parliamentary seat in 1992.
He died after a long ailment at the Nairobi hospital in January 2006.
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