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
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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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