KANU's new merger with Raila Amolo Odinga's National Democratic Party (NDP) gives it a parliamentary majority large enough to pass the two bills before budget day...
Those goal-posts again Speaking in Mombasa to Katz and Diop for the KANU-NDP alliance Raila Odinga accused the World Bank and IMF of 'shifting goal-posts' and withholding aid for ulterior motives adding that 'The issue is not bad governance since the country is very well governed'...
They seized the moment of the merger of Moi's Kenya African National Union and Raila Amolo Odinga's National Development Party on 18 March to reshuffle the KANU deck to their huge advantage...
That is why Moi made sure the Luo leader Raila Odinga became New KANU's Secretary General taking charge of policies and programmes...
This would be made possible by an alliance between KANU's 'Young Turks' and Raila Amolo Odinga's National Development Party (AC Vol 42 No 16)...
The party would go to the elections due by December with a slate of youngish politicians who could mobilise ethnic support for a Moi-friendly transition: Kenyatta (Kikuyu 41) Cyrus Jirongo (Luhya 44) Julius Sunkuli (Maasai 43) Raila Odinga (Luo 57 son of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga) William Ruto (Kalenjin 50)...
Vol 43 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Supporters of the Kenya African National Union and Raila Odinga's National Development Party will use more violence against the opposition...
Legislation affecting constitutional powers must be supported by two-thirds of the total 222 sitting members of parliament; KANU's coalition with Raila Amolo Odinga's National Development Party couldn't muster the required 146 votes...
Raila Odinga of the NDP claimed that Kenya's new union would'strike a death blow to ethnic chauvinism' (meaning Kikuyu politics; he leads the Luo)...
Ghai's appointment undermined the opposition's movement for constitutional reform while the ministerial appointments of Raila Odinga and some of his NDP colleagues delivered the large Luo vote to KANU in parliament and perhaps at the polls...
Vol 42 No 15 |
- KENYA
- SUDAN
Kenya's oil sector was surprised early in July when Energy Minister Raila Odinga announced Kenya would import Sudanese oil cheaply under the zero-tariff terms of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa to which both countries belong...
On 11 June the radio announced that Raila Amolo Odinga and his colleagues in the National Development Party had accepted places in a government hitherto reserved for President Daniel arap Moi's Kenya African National Union...
Raila Odinga's NDP is unashamedly a Luo outfit...
In 1982 the KANU government accused Raila Odinga of involvement in a failed coup d'état against Moi and locked him up for six years...
A confidential memorandum on bad loans from KCB Managing Director Gareth George (who is under attack from Moi and Raila Odinga) reads like a list of the companies of the KANU/Kalenjin elite: Lima Limited (Nicholas Biwott and the Moi family) HZ Construction Company (the Biwott family) Morris and Company (Joshua Kulei and his Kikuyu loyalist Munga Mugwe) Mugoya Construction and Crescent Construction (both linked to top KANU leaders) and Kitimayy Ltd...