Moi built Kenya and broke it at the same time. The roads, schools, and hospitals that went up in the 1980s were real. So were the torture chambers in Nyayo House, the political detentions, the culture of fear that made people whisper rather than speak. Moi's philosophy of "footsteps" meant following Kenyatta, but he also meant total control. University students were beaten for protesting. Lawyers were detained for defending dissidents. The economy collapsed under corruption. Yet millions of Kenyans remember the Nyayo years with strange nostalgia. Infrastructure was built. Discipline was enforced. The question is whether the cost was worth it.