Talk:Raila Odinga

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The liberal democratic party under the chairmanship of the Kenyan Deputy speaker of the 9th parliament David musila existed long before the Rainbow movement was formed.Its therefore not accurate to say the party was formed by the members of the Rainbow Movement, they just joined it...Eunice-Mombasa

who cares

  • though I am not a supporter of Raila Odinga its a real disgrace to see the way people edit articles and put falsehoods on sites, including this one, Kenyattas and Kibakis. Can we all be civil and just post factual statements to the best of our knowledge? Too much tribalism!--Misterk 20:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • It is easy to slap a no-edit on the page, but this is counterproductive as someone out there must be having more information on Raila, which can add to the article's depth. We will keep checking back and any spurious changes will be reversed. Further, I might request IP address blocking for repeat defacers.

Wanyonyi 12:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The next president of Kenya

Raila has shown more than one time that he is the man to beat in Kenyan plitics. He operates in a manner which leaves his opponents bewildered. In the goverment or outside of it, he still controlls Kenyan politics like a chase board. Ladies and gentlemen we are most likely talking of the next president of Kenya.


Njoroge Kamau Mwati

I don't know. Everytime ODM-K has a rally somewhere the only thing I see is chaos and violence. The same applied for the by-elections, LDP-Elections and most of the Referendum-Rallys. I don't want to be governed by a regime of the streets. Nobody in that ODM-Group is worth to be think of as the next president of Kenya. Maybe Uhuru is the man for 2012 but I better go with Kibaki, because all this ODM VIPs who call this government corrupt were Ministers in the most corrupt government in the history of Kenya and when you compare Mois KANU with NARC than we can be happy with the changes so far...


  • Wikipedia is not really the place for Kenyan political debates. Try other fora - restrict talk on this page to the quality and validity of the information on the Raila Odinga page, rather than speculation on who will be President of Kenya.
Wanyonyi 15:08, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ======= Misconceptions

I was thoroughly surprised to read this very biased or perhaps rather lacking, research into the life of Raila Odinga. The references are mainly from pro-Odinga propaganda like his biographies as if I was reading what Odinga was saying about himself. The discriptions of the anti-constitutional Orange Movement and later formed party exemplify this in detail. It is very clear that the researcher creating this entry really does not have a true grasp of Kenyan government nor Kenyan Politics and does not even pretend to try to deny support of him. I would hope that wikipedia shows the entire Katiba Mpya(failed new constituion draft to see what exactly Honorable Odinga and the Orange Democratic Movement were trying to prevent. If one reads this draft it will show the true colors of Odinga to anyone curious enough to educate themselves on this man. It is sad that what is supposed to be an educational tool is prepared in such an uninformed and quite dangerous way. Eric Kunyota..

  • If you have information to add to the article, go ahead and do so. Making vague, unfounded accusations does not add to the substance of the article and detracts from the whole point of an encyclopaedia - which is to act as a reference source.
Wanyonyi 15:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)