Raila Amolo Odinga

For now there is an armed truce between the two main factions of the NARC government: Public Works Minister Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) which wants a devolution of power to district authorities a reduction of the President's executive powers and the creation of a new Prime Minister post; and Kibaki's National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) which wants much less devolution of power to the districts no reduction of the President's executive powers and a Prime Minister who would have no executive powers and would be appointed by the President...

of a 51 per cent controlling stake in Spectre International which was set up and part-owned by members of the family of Raila Odinga Kenya's Minister of Public Works and perhaps one day prime minister if constitutional reforms go through...

The split between the business-dominated 'Mount Kenya Mafia' around President Mwai Kibaki and the populists around Roads and Public Works Minister Raila Odinga looks irreparable...

The fundamental schism is between the National Alliance for Kenya led by Kibaki and Liberal Democratic Party led by Public Works Minister Raila Odinga...

On the night of 11 December while President Mwai Kibaki was preparing to celebrate 40 years of Kenya's Independence his Minister for Public Works Raila Amolo Odinga was holding a star-studded party at the United Kenya Club in central Nairobi...

Mbai's killing further undermines the shaky coalition between Kibaki's political forces and those of Luo leader and Public Works Minister Raila Odinga (AC Vol 44 No 11)...

Raila Odinga is trying to rally members of the ruling coalition disgruntled with the Mount Kenya mafia...

Under the plan the premiership together with the executive powers he demands would be offered to Raila Odinga...

The main rivalry in the National Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC) pits a sub-group led by the shadowy 'Mount Kenya Mafia' (comprising some Kikuyu Meru Embu and Kamba from all parties) against a 'Western Alliance' that backs Raila Odinga and is based on Luo and Luhya parliamentarians plus some members of ex-President Daniel arap Moi's ousted Kenya African National Union (KANU)...

Ngilu; the Liberal Democratic Party is led by Raila Odinga Joseph Kamotho and Arap Moi's old Vice-President George Saitoti...

With his recent return to health the ruling coalition between his National Alliance for Kenya (NAK) and Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party is in the sick bay...

The absence of the President and his deputy cast the spotlight on the second-tier leadership the political management of Public Works Minister Raila Odinga and economic management of Finance Minister David Mwiraria as two issues are set to dominate the government's first year: the promise of a new constitution within six months and the re-establishment of good financial relations with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund...

Their concerns are all the greater when former opposition firebrand-turned-Kenya African National Union Minister and now NARC Minister Raila Odinga is targeting the prime ministerial job...