Better late than never!
Luo Nyanza supremo Raila Odinga has joined the ranks of drug lords and self-serving African despots known for worldly grandeur and excessive opulence. The former yo-yo man in the Kibaki administration is erecting a Ksh.1 billion mini-statehouse in Kisumu.
The 70-roomed house has 10 bedrooms, 6 master bedrooms (Raila’s rooms), 17 toilets and a drive-way which starts at the gate and ends at the entrance of at least 4 Tinga’s master rooms.
The home which has been secretly built is said to have benefited from the kazi kwa vijana funds and Maize Scandal.
At a time when an average Raila supporter, whether in Kisumu or Kibera, cannot afford three meals a day, the Luo ‘god’ is building a grand edifice which tells both the story of the man as the worst political fraud ever to grace Kenya’s political landscape and the ease with which Raila has duped his tribe, the Luo community, to oppose governments which Raila has been one of the biggest and longest beneficiaries.
For a man who has been the face of opposition politics in a country which, for so long, opposition meant a date with destiny to be that rich, in so short a time, and openly show it, remains the a twist in a saga that shall surely evolve. So shocked are Luo MPs and other local leaders that a meeting has been called to discuss Raila.
In the same acreage of land – six acres – that Raila has built this personal amusement museum, another Luo, Prof Bethwel Ogot, donated his own land to built what today is Odera Akang’o Campus.
In the same Nyanza region, former Kisii point-man Simeon Nyachae built what today is Kisii University. A lot has been said of the greed and selfishness of the Odinga family but this new Raila home dwarfs it all.
Raila was PM for 5 years yet not even a health centre in Nyanza rests his name. Because of this, other Nyanza politicians keen to develop the region has either chosen to ‘defy’ Raila’s directive to ‘go slow’ with development or, in the case of Nairobi governor Dr Evans Kidero, openly differed with the owner of Luo poverty – Raila Odinga.
Raila’s development record, when the futre shall extrapolate, will be so meagre that one sees a time when Luos shall forcibly loot this Raila palace. That it was built when Raila was top in government only leads to one conclusion – he embezzled!
Where he could, he took advantage and amassed excessive personal fortune, like what has infamously been termed the Kisumu molasses.
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