Where is this candidate and has he\she strongly expressed any desire to go for the top seat? Why do people always assume that Kiuks can't vote for anyone else just because they've rejected RAO? He's the only candidate we've had from Nyanza since 1997 and it doesn't look like they'll be anyone else anytime soon.

Btw if you look at the voting patterns in the 1992 and 1997 elections you'd realize that KENYANS have always voted along tribal lines.....Kiuks shared votes between Matiba and MK, Nyanza had the Odinga dynasty while Western had the late Wamalwa. Its only in 2002 when they had a common enemy ndio walivote pamoja....it was done through the ballot and not propaganda.

@ harrydre said

“The Luo should rise and realize Odinga is not a god. For the last like 20 years, there has not been any other Luo running for the top seat. That is luck of competitiveness and it's naïve”

@ Yesu Wangu said

‘….The Nyanza model is naive no doubt ‘’ …


Good people, Look at this way from the other side of the coin. RAO is a LEADER of the Luo people. He is not perfect and a leader should not necessarily be perfect or deified. Without a leader, a community’s voice will never be heard and it will be rudderless and resort to things like clannism : Look at the Somalis across the border.

My personal preference would be for RAO to sahau the presidency and go for something else like Nairobi Governor because he is too polarizing a figure.

As a presidential candidate (just like all the others), he has tu-maneno to explain like Maize Scandal, Kisumu Molasses Plant, flip-flopping, nepotism etc etc. The presidency will not define, confirm or alter the fact the he is the Luo leader.

I (and many others) could and will vote for other presidential candidates but RAO will remain the undisputed Luo leader until this leadership mantle is passed on to the next leader. Fidel doesn’t have the qualifications so rest assured the Odinga hegemony will eventually end; but another will rise. And we are happy with that.

Those who cannot comprehend this dichotomy surely cannot see a priest in a black frock standing in a mountain of sugar.

It is not naïvete, It is not ‘Tin God’ worship and all other negative images that people come up with. We do not need ‘Ukombozi’ as Raphael Tuju put it (On Tuju- he needs some education on what ''Community'' is ). We do not need to rise. (Rise and go where- South Sudan?) We are not looking for an alternative leader. We are not looking for an alternative model. We are looking to live as Kenyan Luo’s in a democratic, meritocratic and peaceful Kenya with 40 other tribes as our Kenyan brothers.

This is an African model and it works for us; we don’t need to abolish our culture and evolve into a White Man overnight. We have a leader, we need to accept that and not resort to tribalism against our neighbour’s or hate Okuyo’s and others for no coherent reason. We embrace our Kenyan-ness first and accept our Luo-ness second.

Did he organize, finance and execute this atrocities?

@TAZ,
You forget the lapse between Jaramogi and Raila's leadership of the Luo, Jaramogi preferred Orengo in Luo Nyanza, Raila fought to be the Luo leader, it wasn't given on a silver platter, it's unfortunate for the phobia that we have against Raila we forget the sacrifices he has undergone in this country

Who seized others properties?

@mnjoro, I believe UK derives his support from his "heroic" acts of commission during Jan/Feb of 2008. By then this "people" had and still did not clearly know who their enemies were. WR's "people" slaughtered hundreds of Okuyus in Eld, burned them in churches.....and took away their shambas. While no kaleo was deprived of his land very few that died.
Today the okuyu kingdom does not realize that their hero has betrayed them by sleeping with the enemy WR!!!!!

From the Koigi article, what I want to emphasise like he did is that the okuyu stunt themselves by partnering with WR or agreeing to form whatever tribal alliances period. Worse they partner with the ones who always dine with them lakini "adui ni hao wao"

You clearly don't understand the Kalenjin nation. The rest I agree with.

As a Kikuyu from Rift Valley (As I am) ,Koigi should know that the peace for our people lies in peace with the Kalenjin nation. We are so mixed up in places like Kuresoi, Molo, Likia, Mauche Njoro, Ngata, Kabarak, Rongai e.t.c. that it becomes to our benefit to actually seek an alliance with them. We have suffered in times past as our idealists from Central province pick up wars on our behalf. There was a move to break our union with Central province and explore a political union with our neighbours in rift valley. Believe me when I say this- this union between Uhuru and Ruto is very practical and useful for us kikuyus of 'ruguru'. the rest can meza wembe!