At a huge rally in Nairobi's Uhuru Park scheduled to coincide with the KANU Kasarani show an estimated 50 000 people cheered the fresh KANU defectors to the opposition Saitoti Kamotho Energy Minister Raila Amolo Odinga ex-cabinet ministers Kalonzo Musyoka William Ntimana and Awiti Adhu all of them KANU Rainbow dissidents...
On 21 October at the Nairobi Hilton Hotel a former Moi loyalist Moody Awori of NARC announced the lineup for the top jobs under a Kibaki presidency Raila Odinga as the aspiring prime minister; Kijana Wamalwa for first vice-president; Musyoka for second vice-president; Kipruto Kirwa and Charity Ngilu for deputy prime ministers...
KANU's problems are more serious since Rainbow leaders Saitoti Energy Minister Raila Odinga and Tourism Minister Kalonzo Musyoka attended a rally last week beside the formal opposition National Alliance of Kenya (NAK) led by Mwai Kibaki Michael Kijana Wamalwa and Charity Ngilu and the People's Alliance under Simeon Nyachae...
Surrounding KANU's dreary headquarters building in central Nairobi were crowds of chanting supporters some shouting allegiance to Moi's chosen successor Uhuru Kenyatta some backing the Rainbow Alliance the KANU dissidents led by George Saitoti and Raila Odinga...
Saitoti tours Kenya with Raila Odinga a former political prisoner once accused of plotting a coup to extol party democracy and accountability...
There will be fierce opposition from KANU's Secretary General the former oppositionist and Luo champion Raila Amolo Odinga...
Raila Odinga and Oloo Aringo merged their National Democratic Party (NDP) with KANU on 18 March in a grand political gamble (AC Vol 43 No 7)...
Re-enter Vice-President George Saitoti who was stripped of the KANU vice-chairmanship on the party's merger with Raila Odinga's National Development Party on 18 March (AC Vol 43 No 7)...
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...