Raila’s bag of mixed fortunes in tense year

NASA leader Raila Odinga, and his co-principal Musalia Mudavadi pay tribute to the victims of the Kamukuywa road accident who were buried at Mahanga village in Vihiga County on Dec 23, 2017. [Eric Lungai, Standard]

2017 will go down as another year of should haves, would haves and could haves for Opposition leader Raila Odinga.

If all went his way, his speech writers would be busy preparing his inaugural end year State of the Nation address, perhaps from the very spot, on that aged, breeze-kissed ballroom in State House Mombasa.