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Kenya

Raila Amolo Odinga

Date of Birth: 2 January 1945
Place of Birth: Maseno, Kisumo District, Nyanza Province


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Millionaire debtors

; Joab Omino (Luo/National Development Party) right hand man of Raila Odinga and Deputy Speaker of Parliament 41 mn...


President Moi and the dynasty

• 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...


Before the storm

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)...


Seriously, though

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...


Surprise guests

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'...


Hugging the opposition

Moi touts the merits of ‘partnership' between his ruling KANU and three small opposition parties with ethnic bases in western Kenya: Raila Odinga's NDP (22 of the 222 members of Parliament) Michael Kijana Wamalwa's Ford- Kenya (18 seats) and George Moseti Anyona's Kenya Social Congress (one MP Anyona)...

Raila Odinga's wife Ida Odinga has long been Too's personal assistant at Lonrho...


Moi's last lap

The prospects of an opposition vice-president are negligible although Mark arap Too managed to persuade three opposition luminaries - Raila Odinga (Luo National Development Party) Michael Wamalwa Kijana (Bukusu Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya) and Charity K...


Close shave

Support for the other presidential candidates reflected the narrowness of their ethnic bases: Raila Odinga for the National Development Party (NDP) among the Luo; Michael Wamalwa Kijana for the Forum for Democracy- Kenya Bukusu; Charity K...


The voting business

Ngilu of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Mwai Kibaki leader of the Democratic Party (DP) Michael Wamalwa Kijana of Ford-Kenya and Raila Odinga of the National Development Party...


Constitutional counter

Ford-Kenya has long been divided between KANU-leaning Wamalwa Kijana radical Raila Odinga and independents such as Paul Muite Kiraitu Murungi (both allied to Richard Leakey's unregistered Safina party) and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o (Social Democratic Party)...


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