Inside the deep state that never loses power

Voting at the NSSF grounds in Nairobi. The public service is often a powerful wing of the deep state. It has its own energy and has mastered the way things are done. It can mess up even a sitting president. [File]

Raila Odinga’s elder brother, Dr. Oburu Oginga, was the person who lifted the lid on the raging public debate on the deep state in Kenya. Taking a distant prognostic look at his younger sibling’s political future, after the 2022 elections, Oburu told a public gathering in their Luo Nyanza backyard, “We have always lost the election because the deep state did not want us to win. This time we have the deep state. We are sure of victory.”