Different groups from all over the country are still coming one after another to the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s home in Bondo, Siaya County, three days after the burial.
On Wednesday groups from Central Kenya, Bungoma, and Migori counties composed of local leaders and wananchi visited the Odinga family to sympathetize with the family of the late Prime Minister and talk to their widow, Mama Ida Odinga, and the entire family.
The visitors urged Kenyans to maintain peace, unity and tolerance which they claimed were the qualities that the late Odinga lived by throughout his career in politics.
Among the people who came to pay their last respects to the late former Prime Minister were Agikuyu elders from Nakuru, Kiambu, Murang’a, Kirinyaga, Meru, and Nyeri counties. The elders went with Odinga to his final resting place at Kango ka Jaramogi where he was laid to rest alongside his father, the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. They highlighted the importance of keeping the bond and unity that Raila had established between the Luo and Central Kenya communities alive.
The Governor of Bungoma, Ken Lusaka, also headed the religious movement Dini ya Musambwa, Elijah Masinde Wanameme, a pastor, and the congregation, among others, to convey sympathy to the family. Ken Lusaka referred to the experience as a symbolic one and attributed it to the fact that Odinga’s influence reached far beyond regional and religious aspects.
Moreover, delegations from Migori and Siaya counties visited the Odinga family to pay their last respects.
The Odinga family is scheduled to finish the traditional four-day mourning period for an adult male according to Luo customs on Thursday morning.
