Moody Awori is Kenya VP
Sep 25, 2003
MOODY Awori, a brother of Samia Bugwe MP Aggrey Awori, is the new vice-president of Kenya
By Okello Jabweli and Cyprian Musoke
MOODY Awori, a brother of Samia Bugwe MP Aggrey Awori, is the new vice-president of Kenya.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced the appointment yesterday. The 77-year-old Awori, like Kibaki, was educated in Uganda and is a key member of the National Rainbow Coalition in whose formation he played a big role.
He replaces Michael Kijana Wamalwa who died last month. Awori, who like Wamalwa is from the large Luhya tribe, will retain his home affairs portfolio. His brother Aggrey lost the 2001 presidential polls to Yoweri Museveni.
Aggrey Awori has been MP since 1996 and was a member of the Constituent Assembly that enacted the 1995 constitution. The Samia, to which the Aworis belong, is a sub-tribe of the larger Luhya community.
The older Moody Awori is the MP for Funyula constituency in western Kenya. Funyula borders Samia Bugwe North constituency.
Yesterday, Aggrey Awori emerged from the plenary session flashing a broad smile and exclaimed, “I knew it. I knew it would happen.â€
“I anticipated it when I met Kibaki in Kitale previously. He (Moody) is the most senior person who has been able to hold the coalition together,†Awori said.
“I congratulate my brother on getting the number two position in Kenya. It is better for us to remove these arbitrary colonial borders that have divided us for long,†Awori said.
“Our constituencies are back to back and we have relatives across. The arbitrary boundaries should not separate us or deny us opportunities,†he said.
He said Moody Awori was a deputy minister in Moi’s regime for 21 years and was not promoted to a cabinet minister because of suspicion of being Ugandan. Aggrey Awori said high profile personalities suffered unnecessary discrimination on grounds of nationality, like two Kenyan ministers he knows who are Ugandan.
He said Moody went to Nyangole School in Tororo, Mango High School where Kibaki also went and is married to a Kamba wife, contributing to his cross-national stature. Asked if he would consider going over, he replied, “I don’t even have to wait for recess. I can even go over this evening.â€
MOODY Awori, a brother of Samia Bugwe MP Aggrey Awori, is the new vice-president of Kenya.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced the appointment yesterday. The 77-year-old Awori, like Kibaki, was educated in Uganda and is a key member of the National Rainbow Coalition in whose formation he played a big role.
He replaces Michael Kijana Wamalwa who died last month. Awori, who like Wamalwa is from the large Luhya tribe, will retain his home affairs portfolio. His brother Aggrey lost the 2001 presidential polls to Yoweri Museveni.
Aggrey Awori has been MP since 1996 and was a member of the Constituent Assembly that enacted the 1995 constitution. The Samia, to which the Aworis belong, is a sub-tribe of the larger Luhya community.
The older Moody Awori is the MP for Funyula constituency in western Kenya. Funyula borders Samia Bugwe North constituency.
Yesterday, Aggrey Awori emerged from the plenary session flashing a broad smile and exclaimed, “I knew it. I knew it would happen.â€
“I anticipated it when I met Kibaki in Kitale previously. He (Moody) is the most senior person who has been able to hold the coalition together,†Awori said.
“I congratulate my brother on getting the number two position in Kenya. It is better for us to remove these arbitrary colonial borders that have divided us for long,†Awori said.
“Our constituencies are back to back and we have relatives across. The arbitrary boundaries should not separate us or deny us opportunities,†he said.
He said Moody Awori was a deputy minister in Moi’s regime for 21 years and was not promoted to a cabinet minister because of suspicion of being Ugandan. Aggrey Awori said high profile personalities suffered unnecessary discrimination on grounds of nationality, like two Kenyan ministers he knows who are Ugandan.
He said Moody went to Nyangole School in Tororo, Mango High School where Kibaki also went and is married to a Kamba wife, contributing to his cross-national stature. Asked if he would consider going over, he replied, “I don’t even have to wait for recess. I can even go over this evening.â€