Raila Junior’s amazing similarities with his father. The boy said what Jean Seroney referred to in 1976 as “obvious” when asked whether KANU was dead. ODM is truly sick.
1. Nobody has explained Raila Odinga’s face scar. Reportedly, the father hit him when they met after the assassination of Tom Mboya. Jaramogi was angry with his son for organising a demo in Germany mourning Jaramogi’s enemy. No wonder, he made Mboya’s Assistant Minister deputy leader of NDP a thing the father would never do. Apparently junior has his ways too.
2. Those who claim Raila was crowned by his father hence a member of the Dynasty club in Kenya are wrong. Its James Orengo who was crowned by Jaramogi and should be associated with the dynasty. Raila worked his way up and often disagreed with the father just like Raila Junior.
3. At All Saints Cathedral, while Jaramogi was addressing people, Raila walked in disrupting the father’s meeting as tho he was counterbalancing the father. “Nyamazeni, huyo ni Raila tu, nyamaza tafathali niongee” the old boy pleaded. Junior is not different.
4. Jaramogi relied more on Oyangi Mbaja, a maragoli revolutionary than Rao to manage FORD. Mzee always had Mbaja at his side during media conferences. In fact towards the end Mbaja fell out with baba. Junior’s independence has roots in Raila himself.
5. During the 2017, I organized a team to change Raila’s chosen managers of the presidential selection agents system. Ambushed by my enemies in baba big brains meeting, I couldn’t argue my case well. Baba chastised me and ordered me out of the exercise. Raila junior sought my opinion later and encouraged me. We took over the exercise and kicked out “suspects”.
6. Raila worshiped his mother just like Raila junior does. Raila fainted at his mother’s grave weeping and pulling grass off his mother’s grave after detention. On the other hand, those who attended Jaramogi’s funeral recall that while Oburu broke down in tears after reading the eulogy, Raila mourned his father like a comrade, no tears.
7. Every time Raila was detained, jaramogi always asked those who informed him “which one (child) has been arrested?” The answer would be Raila. “No problem. That one will come back” it never was an emotional relationship. I lack the guts to describe Raila’s reaction when he saw his dota Rosemary in Aga Khan hospital.
8. Whom do you think Raila would choose to succeed him in the family? Your guess is right. Again just like Jaramogi did. Long live junior!
By Wafula Buke
Vincent Onyango says
Junior has spoken. He has spoken his father’s skit. He has said what Raila will soon say. He has spoken because Junet is miss using the father. He has spoken because he is on the ground. He has spoken because he wants things done differently going forward. Junior has told us what neither Uhuruto nor Muratheatwoli would dare tell baba. I propose, second and endorse junior for Lang’ata constituency 2022.