Gideon Moi

1. WTC Gideon Moi has the following brothers and sisters: Doris Moi, Jennifer Jemutai Kositany, June Moi,Raymond Moi, Jonathan Toroitich, Philip Moi, John Mark Moi.[4] Moi is married to Zahra Moi, with whom he has three children: Kimoi, Kigen and Lulu.

Moi has played polo for the Gilgil-based Manyatta club.[5]

Uniquely for Kenyan politicians, Moi has managed to keep his personal life private.[6][7]

In 2020 February, Gideon Moi, Lost his father, the former President of Kenya, Daniel Arap Moi.[8] In 2004, July, he lost his Mother Lena Moi who was wife to former President of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi.[9]

Moi is the leader of KANU political party in Kenya. A favoured son of Kenya's former president, he has been groomed as a presidential candidate by his father. In 2017 general elections, he rallied KANU to support Uhuru Kenyatta for a second term, despite Moi's unease for the candidature which also included his political nemesis and fellow tribesman, William Samoei Arap Ruto.

Moi has announced his intentions and is expected to run in the 2022 Kenyan presidential elections, which will test his political abilities and his ability to fundraise, either from his wealth or from his supporters. Even though he is not now seen as popular as Ruto, it is worth noting there is no national audience poll with him head to head with Ruto. He has continued to serve as a senator and Chairman of the Senate ICT Committee instead of the Cabinet Secretary in Uhuru Kenyatta's government, which was speculated in January 2018.[10]

His party recently formed a coalition agreement with the ruling party to work together within and outside parliament.

In August 2007, The Guardian reported that the Kroll report, commissioned in 2004 by President Mwai Kibaki to trace assets of people who were suspected of looting the state, listed Gideon Moi. It reported that Moi was worth US$550 million.[11]