This archive report was first published on 18 November 2019.
Kenya is at a crossroads, with the Handshake between Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta muddling the political landscape and leaving the country with a difficult choice: which 'devil' to support and which to send home.
However, a closer examination of Raila's past reveals a pattern of behavior that has consistently hindered Kenya's progress. In 1997, he was bought by Moi to cause division among the opposition, and FORD Kenya has yet to recover from the damage he inflicted.
His ambition for high office in 2002 split the National Rainbow Coalition, leading to the 2007 post-election violence that became a symbol of coalition wrangles. In 2008, he entered into a coalition government with his own cartels, forgetting the reforms Kenyans relied on to put the country back on the path to progress.
Throughout 2013-17, Raila's ambition for power led him to conduct unceasing vendetta-based political activities, resulting in lives and properties lost and a siege mentality among Jubilee supporters. His 2018 Handshake with Uhuru has only perpetuated violence, theft, looting, misrule, and high public debt.
Now, Raila is planning to create a rift between Uhuru and Ruto, so that we end up with Uhuru controlling the deep state to entrench the Kenyatta dynasty beyond 2022. We don't need a rift between Uhuru and Ruto; in unity, they must go home in 2022, as Raila follows a different route to Bondo for retirement.
