Raila Amolo Odinga

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...

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...

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...

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...