The quid pro quo was simple: the thousands of dispossessed Gikuyus were resettled in the Rift Valley (and also other parts of the country) via a variety of innovative land buying schemes and the elite around Kenyatta inherited the juiciest chunks of the ‘White Highlands’ intact in Central Kenya and adjoining parts of the Rift Valley. In exchange, Moi, opposed vociferously by prominent Kalenjin leaders like Jean Marie Seroney, quietly became increasingly influential, finally becoming vice president.
Kwa la Zanzibar, Magufuli ni mwana-CCM kama walivyo wana-CCM wengine hasa wanapokuwa viongozi wakuu wa Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania. Kama ilivyo Marekani, ambapo kubadilisha rais kunaweza kusihusikane kabisa na kubadilika kwa sera ya nje ya taifa hilo, ndivyo ilivyo kwa Tanzania na sera yake ya Muungano kuelekea Zanzibar. Kutoka Mwalimu Julius Nyerere hadi John Pombe Magufuli, Zanzibar ni sehemu inayopaswa kuchukuliwa kama koloni na mshindani ambaye lau panakuwa na nafasi, basi angelizamishwa kwenye Bahari ya Hindi asionekane tena.