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...
; Joab Omino (Luo/National Development Party) right hand man of Raila Odinga and Deputy Speaker of Parliament 41 mn...
• Though he emphatically denies he is Moi's son Mark arap Too (Lonrho Kenya Chairman and KANU MP) serves as a trusted Moi emissary to local and foreign trouble spots as well as developing amajor business empire; he brokered the alliance between Raila Odinga and Moi after the 1997 election and has kept it going financially...
But Moi's triumph was due to three opposition parties - Raila Odinga's National Development Party (22 seats) Michael Wamalwa Kijana's Ford-K (18) and George Moseti Anyona's Kenya Social Congress (one seat)...
Then as the horror unfolded compassion and civic duty took over producing some unexpected political events: • In a rare show of unity Moi drove to the bomb site on the day after the massacre with his opponent Democratic Party leader Mwai Kibaki the Social Democratic Party's Charity Ngilu and KANU allies Raila Odinga of National Development Party and Michael Wamalwa Kijana of the Forum for Democracy-Kenya...
KANU's parliamentary majority is slim but on 27 June Raila Odinga's 22-member National Development Party of Kenya authorised him to form a coalition government with Moi ‘for the good of Kenya'...