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Raila should make friends, not foes in quest for power

 

Raila Odinga was here in Emanyulia a few days ago. The villagers have instructed me to ask him what he came to do. They assembled at the marketplace keen on a message of hope from the Son of the Bull. They were confounded to hear the ODM leader say things to the effect, “This place, Emanyulia, is home to one of my uncles, Barrack Muluka. PHOTO: COURTESY

I am here in the village, cavorting with my fellow villagers. We are engaged in hocus-pocus, consulting the gods and the spirits of the ancestors. If you have not understood our cosmology, the spirits are critical in our lives. That was why our own Elijah Masinde wa Nameme founded Dini Ya Misambwa. Misambwa are the spirits. Ask those who ignored the Misambwa man’s instructions about his final resting place. But let me say more on that some other day.

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