It now emerges that foreign trips were payments some of the Nyayo regime strongmen received for their services.
The group which included nominated MPs; Ezekiel Barngetuny and Mulu Mutisya had its main job of protecting then President Daniel Moi's interests at whatever cost.
Others close to the retired president were KANU chairman for Nakuru Kariuki Chotara, Sharif Nassir and Wilson Leitich.
According to a story done by Kwendo Opanga and published by Nation, Moi's allies fought the former president's battles viciously, to an extent one would think the battle was theirs.
One of the known anti-Moi forces of all time and veteran politician Koigi Wa Wamwere, now says that foreign trips were the payments for the job.
"Moi used to take the likes of Barngetuny, Chotara and Mulu Mutisya abroad for protecting him. This was their payment (Moi alikuwa anabeba akina Barngetuny, Chotara na Mulu Mutisya kuwapeleka ng'ambo kwa kumlinda. Hiyo ndiyo ilikuwa malipo yao)," says Wamwere.
He made the remarks during an interview on Radio Sauti Ya Mwananchi's Cheche show on Saturday evening.
Thanks to the group, Moi repeatedly managed to remain in power by applying divide and rule tactics, at a time when his leadership had completely crushed multiparty politics.
Wamwere, opposed to the Moi ideologies, repeatedly found himself in prison, and would later in swear to never shave off his dreadlocks until Moi was ousted.