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Beyond the grave: Why Raila refuses to leave the stage even in death

President William Ruto (third left) and Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye (left) during Mashujaa Day celebrations at Ithookwe Stadium in Kitui County, on October 20, 2025. [PCS]

He may be six feet under, and the afterworld may already have received him, but even in death, Raila Amolo Odinga refuses to leave Kenya’s political stage.

From the well-manicured yet dusty grounds of Ithookwe Stadium in Kitui County, where the country marked its 62nd Mashujaa Day, his shadow loomed unmistakably large.

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