THE DANCE THAT BROKE A MARRIAGE
Jomo Kenyatta Dances with Lena Tungo Moi at the Nakuru town hall during a fundraiser in aid of Rift Valley Institute of Science And Technology ( RVIST), 1972.
Lena is not happy, Jomo seems unperturbed.
As an uncompromising Christian, Lena believed that dancing was sinful, but she was forced by curcumstances to do it, and did not have kind words for Jomo, "... but the insult to the President gravely embarrassed Moi,” wrote Morton, Moi's biographer.
At the opposite end of the hall, Moi, was dancing with a beautiful woman, a senior police officer from special branch.
It’s reported that Lena made a big scene by trying to pull Moi away from his dance partner and that’s what annoyed Moi more.
Following the embarrassing scene, Moi sent his wife away from the vice-president’s official residence at Nairobi’s Kabarnet Gardens to Kabimoi where she quietly lived until her death in 2004.