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Raila Odinga’s ‘jobless’ sister with 30 acres of land in Karen, 12 flats in Nairobi

Although Beryl Odinga told The Nairobian that she's jobless, Kisumu High Court Judge Roselyne Nambuye ordered that half of the late Gem MP's estate be handed over to Beryl's children in 2011 and the other half to the children of Ambala's other wife.

Judge Nambuye dismissed Ambala's will that did not favour Beryl's children who shared among others; 30 acres of land in Karen Nairobi, land in Muhoroni and Siaya, ten houses in Siaya's Ambala Estate, 12 flats in Nairobi's West View apartment, a plot on Turbo Road in Nairobi, and a house on Obote Road in Kisumu.

The MP is also listed as a shareholder of multi-million shilling companies such as Kenya Breweries, Bamburi Portland Cement, National Credit East Africa, Homalime, Navarashi Wholesalers, Timbwalo Sawmills Ltd, two hardware shops in Kisumu, and another in Yala. Ambala, an alumnus of Howard University in America, owned one of the biggest petrol stations in Kisumu and the list in court does not cover bank accounts and his fleets of cars.

Aggrey Otieno Ambala, the former Assistant Minister for Culture, collapsed and died in 1985 of an apparent heart attack at Kodiaga Prison in Kisumu where he had been jailed in connection to the murder of Gem MP Horace Ongili Owiti- who defeated Ambala in the 1983 general election.

Ongili's lifeless body had been dumped into a maize plantation after an armed gang attacked him with machetes and stabbed him with knives in his home on May 27, 1985