Disability is not Inability

:: The background & Family...

Raila Amolo Odinga was born in Nyanza Province on January 7, 1945, at Maseno Church Missionary Society Hospital, the second son of Kenya’s first vice-president, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, and his wife Mary. Raila graduated from Otto von Guericke Technical University, Magdeburg, Germany, in 1970, with a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering, following which he returned to Kenya to take care of the Odinga family after his father’s detention without trial in 1969.

Raila is a loving family man and he and his wife Ida have four children. They are Fidel, who is a business executive, Rosemary, who is an IT consultant and has been married to Amos Akatsa for two years, Raila Jnr, who is a banker, and Winnie, who is in Form IV at school in Nairobi.

Ida Odinga is an active member of various intitiatives to improve women in leadership and political participoation. Has led a powerful campaign to involve and elect women in politics. He influence on Raila presidency is already evident in the Raila Odinga Vision for a 50-50 gender parity in political, social and economic emancipation of the Kenyan woman.

Raila was an assistant lecturer at the University of Nairobi before joining the nascent Kenya Bureau of Standards and being asked to oversee its establishment. He had already established his family business, which manufactures liquid petroleum gas cylinders.

The increasing repression by the state in succeeding years led to Raila’s wider political participation against the evils he has seen desecrate his land. Today, Raila continues to work for the third liberation of Kenya – liberation from the corruption and ethnic favouritism that has bedevilled the nation’s social and economic progress for more than 40 years.

Source: Raila Odinga Website: raila07.com and additional reporting by disabilitykenya.

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