Ruth Busia Adhiambo Odinga, a Kenyan politician and the women’s representative for Kisumu County in the National Assembly, has introduced her Ghanian husband and sons during the funeral of Raila Odinga.
Ruth Odinga is a member of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and the daughter of Jaramogi Odinga, the first vice president of Kenya.
She is also the sister of both former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Oburu Odinga.
Speaking at the funeral service of Raila Odinga in Bondo, Ruth Odinga stated, “Many of you do not know I have a right hand, my right hand is here today”.
The husband speaking to the crowd stated, “ I am pleased to be here with special greetings from Ghana and the Busia family and the royal family of Wenchi, to the great man who is lying down there, and I am so pleased to be here, a man who stood for Justice, for the whole of Africa, I am please to be part of this process saying a farewell to one of our finest and greetsest.
He further described Raila Odinga as a “fine person, with the finer mission, and finest mission and a finer vision of our continent”.
Ruth Odinga later introduced her two sons, who later spoke briefly to the people gathered a the funeral service of Raila Odinga in Bondo.
Meanwhile, the former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga died at the age of 80.
According to a source in Odinga’s office revealed to Reuters on Wednesday, October 15, without giving further details.
An Indian newspaper, Mathrubhumi, had earlier reported that Odinga suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday and was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The late Raila Odinga was undergoing treatment in the southern Indian city of Kochi.
The late Odinga was one of Kenya’s most prominent political figures.
His political career spans decades of democracy activism and five unsuccessful, yet fiercely contested, presidential bids.
Raila Odinga, as an opposition leader, lost all five of his presidential campaigns, with two of the votes leading to chaotic bouts of bloodletting and recrimination a decade apart, which marked his political legacy.
Odinga led mass protests following the disputed 2007 Election, which plunged Kenya into one of its most serious episodes of political violence since gaining independence.
The bloodshed resulted in the deaths of approximately 1,300 people and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes.
However, his work as a democracy activist over the years helped seal two of the country’s most important reforms: multiparty democracy in 1991 and a new constitution in 2010.
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Ruth Odinga introduces her Ghanian husband and sons during the funeral service of Raila Odinga in Bondo pic.twitter.com/ddLdKXmIv9
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