That notion was given short shrift by Siaya Governor James Orengo a long-time Odinga ally who used his own eulogy at a burial ceremony at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Technology in Siaya to warn against Odinga's death being used as a pretext to return to one-party politics...
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The son of the country's first Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Raila Odinga emerged as leading campaigner for political pluralism and against the authoritarian rule of Daniel arap Moi...
That choice of country led to the Odinga family being characterised as leftist compared with the pro-west positions of the Kenyatta family and Tom Mboya a rival to Jaramogi Odinga and also from Luoland...
Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga a consummate politician and populist (and like his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga champion of the Luo people) spoke of an end to tribalism...
Raila’s father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who at the height of the Independence struggle had revived Jomo Kenyatta’s status as leader of the nationalist cause was pushed into the political cold by his old mentor soon after Independence...
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- KENYA
- ANALYSIS
There is some family history; Odinga's father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga felt cheated by the Kikuyu elite which is why he split from the ruling Kenya African National Union in 1966 to form the Kenya People's Union...
The second and favourite son of Kenya's first Vice-President (1964-66) the populist Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Raila grew up saturated in politics...
Raila's father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was the first Vice-President of independent Kenya and in 1966 he fell out bitterly with Uhuru's father the founding President Jomo Kenyatta...
Some in Odinga's camp fear a replay of 1966 when his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga walked out of Jomo Kenyatta's government and took just three MPs into opposition...
Contemptuously dismissed a year ago as lacking the skills and patience of his late father opposition leader Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Raila is now second in importance only to Kibaki (much to Vice-President Michael Wamalwa Kijana's frustration) and his presidential ambitions are harder to rubbish...
Raila's father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was a stalwart of the anti-colonial struggle the strongest non-Kikuyu leader to fight for independence...