Daniel Arap Moi

Retired Kenya’s second President Daniel arap Moi is dead.

His passing was announced on Tuesday morning by President Uhuru Kenyatta who has sent his condolences to the family. Mr Moi was to turn 96 this September.

The retired president had been in and out of hospital in the past years.

In Presidential Proclamation, announcing Moi’s death, President Kenyatta announced that Mzee Moi passed on at the Nairobi Hospital on the early on Tuesday morning in the presence of his Family.