Jaramogi bought Kibaki his first car, former aide alleges

By Anderson Ojwang

The Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) was told of how the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga plucked President Mwai Kibaki from his teaching job at Makerere University and bought him his first vehicle.

A former personal assistant to Jaramogi, who is also a former Kisumu Municipal councillor Edwin Onyango Radier told the commission that the late doyen of opposition politics was acting on the advice of Kikuyu elders who had identified Kibaki, then a tutorial fellow at Makerere University.