Truth be told, Raila had nothing to do with the Kasarani Orange polls fiasco

By Dennis Onyango

Nairobi, Kenya: Last week, The Standard on Sunday all but named ODM leader Raila Odinga as the sponsor of the “Men in Black” who disrupted his party’s National Delegates Convention in Kasarani. The paper should not have. The NDC was an ODM function, organised by the party. Raila had placed so much hope in the exercise, put in much time and energy, spent personal resources on it and resisted calls for its postponement because he wanted to put the elections behind and embark on other critical national and party issues.