Raila Odinga defends president William Ruto’s ADANI Deals
Former Prime Minister and current AU Chair aspirant Raila Odinga has defended president William Ruto’s public-private partnerships during a press briefing on Sunday 13th October 2024, describing them as essential for tackling Kenya’s pressing economic challenges and ensuring successful infrastructure projects. This comes amid growing skepticism among Kenyans regarding…
Raila Odinga’s bid For AU top job faces fresh hurdle
Raila Odinga’s chances of becoming the next African Union Commission Chair are now uncertain, as a proposal by the Permanent Representatives’ Committee could block his bid due to Kenya and Rwanda’s previous positions. The proposed changes aim to restrict countries that have held specific AU positions since 2002 from…
Museveni hosts Raila and Ruto in Uganda over Raila’s AU job bid
President William Ruto, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, and President Yoweri Museveni had a productive meeting at Kisozi Country Home in Uganda on Monday. Ruto shared that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss Odinga’s candidacy for the African Union (AU) Commission chairmanship. “This relationship includes bringing all…
Raila’s Allies pay for Protests
The results of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga announcement of a series of protests in a bid to force the state to lower the cost of living came at a high political career and life risk in the hands of the state.His close allies, diehards and supporters have had…
Raila Bashes DP GAchagua at Mukami Kimathi’s Funeral
Former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, on Saturday, May 13, Shot staright from the hip at the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua over a government directive issued over Mukami Kimathi’s state funeral. While addressing the mourners in Nyandarua County, Raila argued that deputy president Rigathu did not order the flags in…
Hardlines in the Bipartisan parliamentary talks to derail process
The parliament-led bipartisan negotiations agreed between Kenya’s President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga could collapse prematurely after the two parties took hardline positions on various issues even before the first meeting. Whereas Mr Odinga has announced that mass protests to agitate for a lower cost of living…
Why Raila’s case failed at supreme court
Lack of evidence and forgery of documents are some of the reasons that moved the Supreme Court of Kenya judges to unanimously dismiss the petitions challenging the election of William Ruto as President. The court found the petition was to some extent, based on falsehoods by some lawyers and…
The Supreme Court has framed 9 issues for its determination of Presidential Election petition
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 30 – The pre-trial conference on the Presidential petitions challenging President-Elect William Ruto’s win has began on Tuesday, 11.00am. The Supreme Court of Kenya led by CJ Martha Koome on its pretrial sitting has framed DRAFT ISSUES FOR DETERMINATION UPON perusing the pleadings, the Court has…
Choice List of Azimio La Umoja Lawyers lined up for Election Dispute case
Here are some of the veteran lawyers that Raila Odinga has assembled for to overturn William Ruto’s victory: Senior Counsel Kiragu Kimani Kiragu Kimani SC is a partner at Dentons Hamilton Harrison & Mathews. He has over 30 years’ experience in constitutional matters, tax litigation, procurement disputes, commercial litigation,…
Raila Odinga asks Bahati to drop Mathare bid, Imran Okoth to drop Kibra MP race
ODM leader and Azimio La Umoja-One Kenya coalition presidential Aspirant Raila Odinga has asked Independent candidate Imran Okoth to step down from the Kibra MP race. Odinga was speaking during a rally in the constituency on Sunday. He asked Imran – who lost in the ODM primaries held in…