"He left me without a word," Ida Odinga speaks on the pain of losing Raila

Winnie Odinga delivers the hat of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga to Mama Ida in Nairobi, on October 16, 2025. [File, Standard]

Mama Ida Odinga has revealed how difficult it is for her family to believe that former Prime Minister Raila Odinga is dead.

Speaking at her Opoda Farm home in Bondo, Siaya County, on Tuesday, where she hosted widows under Widows Voices Ministry who had come to condole with the family, Ida described Raila's death as unexpected.