Odinga jinxOdinga is desperate to avoid having the same legacy as his father Oginga Odinga Kenya's first vice-president who lost out to Moi in the race to succeed Jomo Kenyatta in 1981 when it was all but sewn up...
Their fathers founding President Jomo Kenyatta and Oginga Odinga were political rivals for three decades...
Kanu's lawyer Ifeanyi Ejifor says that his client was arrested by police at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where he was held before being handed over to Nigerian security officials...
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It's a fight that dates back to the Ndegwa Commission of 1972 when the Jomo Kenyatta administration formalised conflict of interest by allowing civil servants to own businesses that transacted with the government...
So committed is the president to the BBI legacy that on 31 March he drove unannounced to Odinga's home in the well-heeled Karen suburb to persuade him to come the following day on a whistle-stop tour of Nairobi to showcase newly completed projects including a bus station renovations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport roads and hospitals...
6 billion shilling (US$559 million) toll road from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Westlands next year the face of downtown Nairobi will have been altered significantly...
But they offered to rehabilitate the dilapidated British-built metre-gauge line from Naivasha to Kisumu and the Uganda border and reaffirmed their commitment to a toll-road connecting western Nairobi to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport...
Reparation for 'historical injustices' inflicted especially under Jomo Kenyatta's presidency (1964-78) and 'electoral justice' (which was the Nasa watchword for the repeat presidential elections last year will be key components of the Building Bridges report when it is published later this month he says...
Kapseret MP and Ruto colleague Oscar Sudi says the audit should go back to Jomo Kenyatta's time from 1963...
Founding President Jomo Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi ruled in turn from 1964 until 2002 under the umbrella of the Kenya African National Union the party which brought Kenya to independence...
