This archive report was first published on 3 January 2020.
On December 20, 2018, Kisumu Governor Anyang' Nyong'o revealed that President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga may have played a greater role in organizing the DR Congo's opposition in the 2018 presidential election that was eventually won by Mr Felix Tshisekedi.
Speaking at St Austin's Catholic Church in Nairobi during the requiem mass of Mr Gilbert Mundela, a special adviser to the Congolese leader, Governor Nyong'o praised the two leaders for their support.
"I must thank President Kenyatta and Mr Odinga who had faith in us and went ahead to embrace both the presidential candidate Tshisekedi and his party, the Union of Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS)," Prof Nyongo said.
Mr Mundela, 66, had been a key figure in the Congolese opposition and had been advising President Tshisekedi on private affairs. He died on December 27, 2018, after suffering a heart attack during a meeting.
President Kenyatta and Mr Odinga had attended Mr Tshisekedi's inauguration on January 24, 2019, in a historic event that marked a new era in DR Congo's politics.
Mr Mundela's legacy was celebrated by Cabinet secretaries Fred Matiang'i and Monica Juma, who eulogized him as a Pan Africanist who believed in a united Africa.
