Briefing from ROAPE Volume 25 Number 75
Moi's Flawed Mandate: The Crisis Continues in Kenya

President Daniel Arap Moi, and his ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) party, swept to a further potential five year term of office as a result of the latest general election, which was conducted - at the latest moment allowable under existing law - on 29 December 1997. However, as in the 1992 election, the first such contest to be held since independence under multi-party rules, the government's mandate must be regarded as highly flawed, highly controversial and thoroughly divisive of Kenyan society.