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...
He is backed by a coalition of the Kenya African National Union and Raila Odinga's mainly Luo National Development Party...
They have recently and surprisingly found themselves in alliance with the National Development Party led by the hereditary Luo leader Raila Amolo Odinga formerly Moi's implacable foe...
Another group of Moi-loyalists - Fredrick Amukowa wa Anangwe (Luhya Minister of State) Julius Sunkuli (Maasai Minister of State) Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba Education Minister) Fred Gummo (Luhya Minister of State) plus the Luo boss Raila Odinga - wants a younger KANU/NDP coalition candidate to face off the Kikuyu; this would allow Moi and his cronies to control security and power behind the scenes through KANU of which he would remain head...
Vol 42 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
In Kenya President Daniel arap Moi's Kenya African National Union and Raila Odinga's National Development Party are set to consummate their alliance with a formal coalition to fight the 2002 elections...
On 16 August thugs from the ruling coalition of KANU and Raila Odinga's National Development Party attacked a peaceful rally in Nairobi organised by the constitutional reform lobby which is led by James A...
The ruling KANU party has succeeded thanks to a peculiar alliance with Raila Odinga leader of the National Development Party and a group of Luo intellectuals...
On 27 April NDP members of parliament voted alongside their KANU colleagues creating a parliamentary majority to approve the Kenya Constitutional Amendment Report drafted by a commission led by Raila Odinga and with Moi's full support...
In the past two weeks we hear there have been frantic private consultations between on the one hand Raila Odinga (titular head of the Luo people Chairman of the NDP and son of the late patriarch Jaramogi Oginga Odinga) and on the other hand Moi (Kalenjin) his personal assistant Joshua Kulei and his associates - Mark Too and Amos Wako Attorney General...
Secondly raising funds for a campaign to sell the anticipated results of the Commission - a ceremonial president (presumably Moi) a vice-president (from the opposition) and a prime minister (presumably Raila Odinga)...
Raila Odinga attacked Kibaki for misleading the Kikuyu and for having supported the one-party system in the 1980s...
The weekend after parliament adopted his report Raila Odinga led a 40-vehicle motorcade into Nyeri District in the Kikuyu heartland taking along the late Jomo Kenyatta's son Uhuru Kenyatta a KANU stalwart who lost the parliamentary election to an opposition neophyte in 1997...
Raila Odinga former opposition firebrand and leader of the National Democratic Party leads a parliamentary commission of NDP and KANU members on reform of the basic law which aims to sound out Kenyans' views and restart inter-party negotiations...
Equally Kajwang's motion may have been a last-ditch effort by his party leader Raila Odinga to derail Saitoti's succession...
Moi was slow to fill the post; the leading candidates whom he kept in suspense and who all believe they are still in the running were: Education Minister Kalonzo Musyoka (Kamba 11 per cent of the population); NDP leader Raila Odinga (Luo 14 per cent); Saitoti (Kikuyu 23 per cent and Maasai 4 per cent); ex-Finance Minister Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi (Luhya 15 per cent); Nyachae (Kisii 9 per cent); Lands Minister Katana Ngala (Coast 11 per cent)...
Among the Luo Raila Odinga’s position as supreme leader has been strengthened by the appointments of two other Luo - Abong’o as police chief and Lazarus Amayo as High Commissioner to India...