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Raila Odinga

Raila on Kenya: A vision for the next 60 years and beyond

A speech by Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga on Kenya's 60th anniversary.

By Raila Odinga 11 months ago

Raila on Kenya: A vision for the next 60 years and beyond

Raila Odinga: My take on Ruto's 100 days in office

Raila Odinga: My take on Ruto's 100 days in office

By Raila Odinga 1 year ago

Sterling aims to spark Chelsea ahead of Tottenham game

Sterling aims to spark Chelsea ahead of Tottenham game

By Raila Odinga 2 years ago

Omanyala bounces back in style, targets faster times in semis today

Omanyala bounces back in style, targets faster times in semis today

By Raila Odinga 2 years ago

Raila Odinga: This is my pledge to the people of Kenya

The pledges I make here today, with this ticket are pledges I intend to keep.

By Raila Odinga 2 years ago

Raila Odinga: This is my pledge to the people of Kenya

Raila Odinga: My vision on economy, private sector

I'm excited to meet members of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance. My mission here is to share with you my vision on role of the private sector...

By Raila Odinga 2 years ago

Raila Odinga: My vision on economy, private sector

Raila Odinga: I bear my physical and psychological scars with pride

I’m proud of my scars and my fifth bid for State House proposes better policies and seeks to unite Kenyans

By Raila Odinga 2 years ago

Raila Odinga: I bear my physical and psychological scars with pride

I’m in the 2022 presidential race: Raila Odinga’s speech in full

I bear the scars of liberation with pride, and embrace the blood, sweat and tears they cost me

By Raila Odinga 2 years ago

I’m in the 2022 presidential race: Raila Odinga’s speech in full

Raila Odinga: These are my thoughts on devolution

Climate change is bigger than the election coming up in 2022 or the ones that will follow in in 2027 or 2032.

By Raila Odinga 2 years ago

Raila Odinga: These are my thoughts on devolution

Deliberate action needed to return manufacturing and jobs to Kenya

Kenya has witnessed an alarming exit and scaling down of operations by multinational corporations and other big businesses in the last few years.

By Raila Odinga 3 years ago

Deliberate action needed to return manufacturing and jobs to Kenya

We should expand our national cake to avert scramble for resources

Building a prosperous nation has been our aspiration and a key national goal right from independence in 1963.

By Raila Odinga 4 years ago

We should expand our national cake to avert scramble for resources

Integrity, public good missing in standoff over sharing revenue

It begins with leaders being honest and embracing integrity in all their transactions on behalf of the people.

By Raila Odinga 4 years ago

Integrity, public good missing in standoff over sharing revenue

Here's Raila's statement on the 'worrying conduct of CS Matiang'i' in full

Four weeks ago, on the 9th of March 2018, President Uhuru Kenyatta and I came together and agreed that we would change the direction of our country

By Raila Odinga (Statement) 6 years ago

Here's Raila's statement on the 'worrying conduct of CS Matiang'i' in full

Building bridges to a new Kenyan nation

Jubilee and Opposition leaders agree to end ‘dangerous division’ to heal the nation

By Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga 6 years ago

Building bridges to a new Kenyan nation

Jubilee leaders' brazen attempt to undermine reforms we fought hard to achieve will fall flat in the face

What should be clear to us Kenyans is that the struggles we mounted from the 1980s through the 1990s for a new Constitution were never in vain.

By Raila Odinga 6 years ago

Jubilee leaders' brazen attempt to undermine reforms we fought hard to achieve will fall flat in the face

Raila's heartfelt Christmas and New year's message to Kenyans

We are divided between those who have rallied behind the leadership that wants to take us back to the dictatorship and those who believe that democracy and rule

By Raila Odinga 6 years ago

Raila's heartfelt Christmas and New year's message to Kenyans

STATEMENT BY RAILA ODINGA: Civil servants deserve respect

<p>We have noted with concern President Uhuru Kenyatta’s belligerent remarks in Makueni yesterday, where he threatened chiefs who he purports to be supporting NASA with dire consequences should he be re-elected

By Raila Odinga 7 years ago

STATEMENT BY RAILA ODINGA: Civil servants deserve respect

Raila’s letter from Jerusalem

This week I travelled to The Holy Land to deliver an address on Democracy, Religion and Peace in Africa

By Raila Odinga 7 years ago

Raila’s letter from Jerusalem

ODM must remove Jubilee from office to save the country from ruin

The Orange Democratic Movement is focused on the next big challenges; the elections due in August 2017 and leading the country thereafter.

By Raila Odinga 8 years ago

ODM must remove Jubilee from office to save the country from ruin

Raila: We must ensure next government is no product of fraud

August 8 marked the start of the one-year countdown to our second general election under the 2010 Constitution. We have 364 days to go.

By Raila Odinga 8 years ago

Raila: We must ensure next government is no product of fraud

Raila Odinga: Return old order to schools pending consultations to avoid more arson

CORD leader Raila Odinga has called on the Ministry of Education to return previous term dates as a way to restore sanity in public secondary schools that have been hit by an infectious wave if students’ unrest.

By Raila Odinga 8 years ago

Raila Odinga: Return old order to schools pending consultations to avoid more arson

Why IEBC Commissioners Must Resign

For a long time now, CORD has been demanding for the reconstitution of IEBC. We have advanced many reasons which got forgotten in the noise generated by the Jubilee's decision that there was no justification for CORD's demands.

By Raila Odinga 8 years ago

Why IEBC Commissioners Must Resign

Raila lays out CORD’s agenda for 2016

Insecurity, runaway corruption, a wanting electoral infrastructure, wobbly economy whose growth is seen in the stock market and corporate profits but not in the lives of our people and safeguarding the constitution are some of the most immediate challenges we will have to address.

By Raila Odinga 8 years ago

Raila lays out CORD’s agenda for 2016

Raila Odinga’s full statement on law to amendment of Auditor General’s role

We have today instructed our lawyers to move to court and challenge the new move by the Jubilee Administration to muzzle the one office that is struggling to guard public interest in the era of grand theft of public resources by government officials.

By Raila Odinga 8 years ago

Raila Odinga’s full statement on law to amendment of Auditor General’s role

The Holy Father challenged us all; let’s take his message deeply

It was good to have Pope Francis in Kenya. As a nation we should collectively express our gratitude to the Pope for making time to come and be with us.

By Raila Odinga 8 years ago

The Holy Father challenged us all; let’s take his message deeply

Raila-Kenyans need clarity and probity on euro bond loan

In recent weeks, as our financial situation has taken a turn for the worse, the Jubilee administration has struggled to wish away one financial misstep that appears to be at the centre of our woes---the Euro Bond loan and its misuse.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Raila-Kenyans need clarity and probity on euro bond loan

Raila Odinga’s full statement on Kenya’s economic crisis

Since Jubilee came to power, it has insisted that the economy is growing and Kenyans can sit back and relax. We in Opposition have warned that we are on the road to nowhere. We warned that jubilee is over borrowing, over spending and over stealing.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Raila Odinga’s full statement on Kenya’s economic crisis

I will not record any statement on Kuria's claims, Raila now says

“Paradoxically,” Raila says, “the DPP finds the confessions serious enough to warrant the use of scarce public resources in an investigative inquiry of innocent Kenyans that were subject of Kuria’s contrite outpouring.”

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

I will not record any statement on Kuria's claims, Raila now says

Stop lies about wage bill, Raila tells Uhuru

The point we have been making these last two years about the leadership deficit in Government has arrived at our doorsteps with a bang.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Stop lies about wage bill, Raila tells Uhuru

Jubilee lying to Kenyans on ability to effect salary hike

The times demand that we speak candidly and decisively, truthfully and frankly, honestly and boldly.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Jubilee lying to Kenyans on ability to effect salary hike

CORD remarks at teachers’ solidarity rally

Our children find themselves at the right place, at the wrong time; at home in September and not in school as is tradition.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

CORD remarks at teachers’ solidarity rally

Raila: Kenya must go beyond Mau Mau in recognising her heroes

On behalf of these young Kenyans and their parents, I thank the British government for investing in the future of our country.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Raila: Kenya must go beyond Mau Mau in recognising her heroes

Raila Odinga: Constitution still under threat, needs defenders

Fellow Kenyans, today we celebrate the fifth year since we promulgated the new Constitution.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Raila Odinga: Constitution still under threat, needs defenders

Raila Odinga’s speech at United States International University in Nairobi

Vice Chancellor Prof Freida Brown, trustees of USIU, administration, faculty, students, friends of USIU and, most important, the graduating class of 2015, it is wonderful to be here with you.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Raila Odinga’s speech at United States International University in Nairobi

Raila: Let's remember wananchi who changed Kenya

Twenty five years ago today, Kenyans poured into this city from early hours, defying tight security and dire warnings to demand a piece of the promise our founding fathers made at independence; that justice be our shield and defender

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Raila: Let's remember wananchi who changed Kenya

Raila condemns Burundi coup, says EAC leaders should declare Nkurunziza unfit to vie

The latest developments in Burundi, in which the military announced the “dismissal” of the President, are unfortunate and regrettable although they have not come as a surprise, given the events of recent months.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Raila condemns Burundi coup, says EAC leaders should declare Nkurunziza unfit to vie

CORD to push reforms in new year

History is full of nations that once realised they were on the decline then embarked on deliberate efforts at re-engineering, rediscovery and redesign to emerge tops again.

By RAILA ODINGA AND KALONZO MUSYOKA 9 years ago

CORD to push reforms in new year

Otieno Kajwang's place in roll of honour assured

A giant has fallen out of our midst and gone silent. It is our fate to bear the pain of seeing Gerald Otieno Kajwang’ depart.

By Raila Odinga 9 years ago

Otieno Kajwang's place in roll of honour assured

RAILA: We must talk, and this is why

One of the unfortunate assumptions that African countries have made in adopting western democracy is that those who get elected are infused by their victory with an omniscience that enables them to formulate solutions for all the country’s problems.

By RAILA ODINGA 10 years ago

RAILA: We must talk, and this is why

We will fight to make quality of life for the poor better in the New Year

We began 2013 with anxiety about the elections, which passed peacefully, but left Kenyans divided in almost equal halves.

By Raila Odinga 10 years ago

We will fight to make quality of life for the poor better in the New Year

Why democracy is on trial in Africa

As the Berlin wall started falling in Europe and new nations emerged out of the collapsed Soviet Empire, the western world cheered the triumph of democracy and the demise of what Ronald Reagan once called “the evil empire”.

By Raila Odinga 11 years ago

Why democracy is on trial in Africa

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