After 18 months in detention, a thin looking Odinga returns home on March 27, 1971.
His wife Mary Ajuma and son Oburu Odinga accompanied him as he met a gathering of well-wishers who had flocked to his home.
BREAKING
Former Interior CS Dr Fred Matiang'i who is also Jubilee presidential candidate says Raila Odinga won 2022 elections with 53.6%. However, he says the security teams could not interfere with final results. These claims were dismissed by the Supreme Court, though.
The Westโs arrogance was louder than the warning! The UAE foreign minister told them in 2017 that Terrorism was coming. They ignored us. Now theyโre blaming us.
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Before I forget,
Do you see that Ka'small segment of Mabagathi Highway near Kenyatta Market that looks like concrete slab?
The one that sounds like you are driving on top of a paving slab?
Yes, that distinct segment.
That was Raila Odinga's engineering test on building a long-lasting road.
He tested it in 2003 as Roads Minister
I can say a lot about Babaman.
In 2007 while campaigning in Kibwezi he asked,
"Do you mean we can't even build a meter of railway since the colonizer left 44 years ago? Even a meter? Can't we? Are we so dumb?"
I remember this statement so vividly as if it were yesterday.
This is how the SGR was formulated.
May Baba Continue Resting in Peace.
The End.
THIKA SUPERHIGHWAY was Raila Odinga's pet project.
In 2003, as Roads Minister, he and Engineer Joshua Toro, then MP for Kandara and Assistant Minister for Roads, crafted a master plan.
The THIKA Highway was the pilot project, followed by Rironi - Mau Summit - Londiani - Fort Tenan - Muhoroni, and Ngata - Salgaa - Mau-Summit - Londiani - Kericho - Kisumu - Busia.
But the constant conflicts between LDP and NAK stalled these Mega Projects.
The Orange-Banana conflict jeopardised every dream built in 2002 because people around Kibaki, like Karua, didn't like LDP near the government's policy-making meetings.
Then came 2008, and the Coalition Government was born after a horrible 2007 election.
Kipkalya Kones, as Roads Minister, restarted the stalled mega road projects. Then he died in June 2008 in a plane crash.
Then Franklin Bett was appointed Roads Minister. He restarted and supervised the Thika Highway groundbreaking ceremony, alongside Jimmy Wanjigi, who designed its financing instruments.
Baba carried all the insults when the project started,
"Economic saboteur"
"He is destroying our businesses"
"He wants EABL to collapse so that his molasses plant can start producing beer"
"This ODM part of the Government is heartless."
Kibaki was almost folding, but Jimmy Wanjigi told him off.
Baba and Bett remained firm, and the Highway was commissioned in November 2012 at Museum Hill. Kibaki was present alongside Johnny-come-lately Kalonzo Musyoka.
Baba carried the insults, the media rewrote the truth, and we carried the glory.
I know our history well because I have refused to let politicians and the media rewrite our historical journey.
The media hides the truth, broadcasts lies, to keep the masses misinformed and enraged.