Photos: Raila Odinga received by mammoth crowd ahead of celebrations

ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga, flanked by his Deputy Hassan Joho addresses locals at Changmwe in Mombasa upon his arrival for the party's 10th Anniversary celebration.(PHOTO BY MAARUFU MOHAMED)/STANDARD

Mombasa is pregnant with expectation as ODM leader Raila Odinga  who arrived in the coastal city last evening to a rousing welcome by party supporters and legislators at the Moi International Airport.

(Photo: Maarufu Mohamed/STANDARD)

ODM Party Leader Raila Odinga adressing locals at Changmwe, Mombasa. (PHOTO BY MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD)

On arrival, Raila declared that ODM has embarked on a journey to oust Jubilee from power through the ballot, claiming that the ruling coalition was a kleptocracy incapable of understanding and conceiving a radical solution to Coast’s intractable problems.

(Photo: Maarufu Mohamed)

Amid cheers, the CORD principal declared that “the time has come to usher in a government that has a strategy that looks into the peoples’ pressing issues, not a government that continues to oppress Kenyans."

He denounced the Jubilee merger, saying the new mega party cannot be distinguished for any known policy. According to the former Prime Minister, nothing can be expected from the merger because it is composed of the same people who have been in government since 2013.

He likened Jubilee affiliates to monkeys jumping from forest to forest without changing. “A monkey has come out of Kiunga forest and moved to Shimba hills but it is still a monkey and we are the ones who are carrying the [torch] liberation for Kenya,” he said.