A story is told of how President Uhuru Kenyatta's mother Mama Ngina Kenyatta had to seek the intervention of retired President Daniel Moi to tame Deputy President William Ruto.
This was actually the main reason behind Mama Ngina's visit to Moi's Kabarak home in Nakuru county on January last year, where she reportedly went to "report" Ruto for dominating Uhuru, expecting some sort of intervention from his departed husband Jomo Kenyatta's successor.
According to the Standard, Mama Ngina was worried about Ruto's grip on his son, noting that the DP seemed to have completely overpowered his boy despite being his junior, making Uhuru a spectator as Ruto takes the front seat in making crucial decisions within the Jubilee government.
She resorted to using the unending enmity between Ruto and Baringo Senator and the retired head of state's son Gideon Moi, to provoke a speedy and lethal response, claiming that Ruto's unending attacks on Gideon were downplaying the Moi political lineage.
"Mama Ngina is not happy that Ruto seems to have hold over her son and seems not to appreciate who his (Uhuru's) 'political father' is," a source told the paper.
Moi's response and the meeting's conclusion, however, remains a secret, as the two proceeded into a closed door meeting that saw even the biggest political names in the Rift Valley region who were present, including former Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Chair Zipporah Kittony locked out.
Also locked out of the talks was Uhuru's sister Kristina Kenyatta who had accompanied her mother in their chopper ride to Moi's homestead.