Day Nkaissery shocked Uhuru – VIDEO
The late Joseph Nkaissery would probably have ended up as the head of the military had Uhuru Kenyatta succeeded in his first attempt at the Presidency, the President revealed last evening.
President Kenyatta told a rapt audience at the Nairobi Baptist Church that he met the late Cabinet Secretary when he was a very young man, as he was a friend to his cousin Captain Kung’u Muigai.
They would meet again in 2002, re-introduced to each other by President Daniel Moi as he sought to prepare the son of the founding President to become President, what was known as ‘Project Uhuru’.
“He was very keen that I should get to know a few individuals who he thought it was important that I get to know well, because they are people that he said I should work with,” said President Kenyatta.
The President said he was very surprised that the Major-General was going to quit the army and join politics.
SHADOW MINISTER
“I was keener at that stage and said: ‘Why are you quitting? Si tuliongea na Mzee Moi wewe utakuwa CDF wangu. Sasa wewe unaondoka (Didn’t we talk with Mzee Moi and agree that you would be my CDF – Chief of Defence Forces).’ He said, ‘I want to join politics. I think I can play a greater role in politics,’” said President Kenyatta.
Mr Nkaissery, whose funeral is on Saturday at his home in Il Bisil, Kajiado County, would later become the Opposition’s Shadow Minister for Defence, insisting in conversations that theirs was the government-in-waiting.
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