WHY DOES RAILA NOT FEAR DEATH?

Recently there have been claims that Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s life is in danger. What has shocked many Kenyans is the casual way the PM has taken the news not looking at all frightened or scared for his life.

He even told a public rally that he does not fear death  and that everybody has to face death one day. Those who do not know Raila was shocked at the way Raila reacted. However those who know him better and his past are not at all surprised. After all Raila has escaped death many times. During the Kenyatta presidency there were those who were very determined to kill his father the late Jamarogi Oginga Odinga shortly after they have murdered popular politician Tom Mboya. And they tried many things but they did not succeed. 

It is fascinating that after the abortive coup of 1982 which Raila was deeply involved many people were sure he was going to be hanged. Insiders tell Rocket that Jaramogi pleaded with Moi to spare Raila’s life and Moi was despite what people say was a man of mercy many times accepted and made a deal with Jaramoig that in return he must support the Moi government to ...end. Jaramogi struck to his end of .. until the late 80’s when he joined others like Ken Matiba and Charles Rubia in fighting for multiparty politics in Kenya. But the point here is that Raila’s lfie was spared while others involved  with the 1982 coup attempt like private Pancreas Ochuka were hanged at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.

After Raila took over from his father during the Moi days, President Moi saw him as sa serious threat and there are people around Moi who wanted to murder Raila and even tried several times. But they never succeeded. Once when Raila was fleeing the country by crossing into Uganda a military man loyal to President Moi saw him and would have easily shot him there and then and that would have been the end of Raila. Instead they just stood and watched as Raila cross the border into the safety of Uganda where he later flew out to a Scandinavian country where he remained in exile for a few months.

More recently during the era of president Mwai Kibaki, Raila has also had many enemies. Still he has somehow survived.

Is all this normal? For a man to escape the traps of others so many. time? or does Raila have magical powers? There are those who believe that he does while there are those Kenyans who say that he has just been lucky.