Initially Prime Minister Odinga and his associate James Orengo backed the Waki report...
His ODM colleague Lands Minister James Orengo then displayed documents indicating that the hotel had been sold to the Kenya-registered LAAC for Ksh 1...
The Kikuyu MP for Naivasha John Mututho then wrote to James Orengo ODM's Luo Minister of Lands requesting that the lands be given to the squatters for whom they were meant...
Many of the cabinet's ODM members are firmly embedded in the government including Lands Minister James Orengo who blew the whistle on the Kimunya story...
Vol 49 No 11 |
- KENYA
- ANALYSIS
Odinga and the Minister of Land James Orengo have sometimes sided with the hardline Kalenjin politicians...
James Orengo the ODM Minister for Land told the Nation newspaper that past land disputes should be resolved case by case and he thought that would be simplified once parliament approved a new draft Land Policy Sessional Paper designed to harmonise conflicting land acts...
Drafted by Attorney General Amos Wako and opposition lawyer James Orengo it sets out the terms of a grand coalition jointly led by the President and an Executive Prime Minister who will be the leader of the largest party in Parliament...
His sole challenge comes from another 'Young Turk' radical of 1992 James Orengo standing on the SDP presidential ticket who will probably win his home seat of Ugenya but make little headway elsewhere...
'The Third Force': this includes the 'Young Turks' who dissatisfied with the DP and KANU hope for a 'progressive coalition' of non-ethnic leaders associated with the Muungano wa Magezi (Alliance for Change) such as MPs James Orengo (Ford-Kenya) Shem Ochuodho (NDP) and James Mwihia (Social Democratic Party)...
It keeps at arm's length from the opposition parties remaining separate from a reform group of key opposition leaders - the Democratic Party's Mwai Kibaki Saba-Saba Asili's Kenneth Matiba Charity Ngilu of the Social Democratic Party and influential members of parliament James Orengo Shem Ochuodho and Peter Anyang Nyongo...
In the following week the eloquent James Orengo promised to provide a sworn affidavit listing the bribes including new cars and payments of up to 250 000 Kenya shillings (US$4 170) paid to some opposition MPs...
