With the ageing President Kenyatta unable to fulfil all the functions of the presidency, Moi took a leading role in the East African region with the result that Nicholas Biwott spent much of the next four years dealing with the Organisation of African Unity, the Commonwealth, the non-aligned states and promoting the'good neighbourliness'policy with states bordering Kenya.
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More over, the report of the Justice G . G . Robinson's Commission of Inquiry into the Okrika-Kalabari dispute, in the then Degema Division, in 1950 maintained the fact that Kula ( like Bille and Ke ) was established before the arrival of the Kalabaris at the Old Shipping ( Elem-Kalabari ) despite being associated with the latter through administrative convenience, inter-marriage, neighbourliness etc.