How Uhuru’s visit in Nyanza is the healing of his fathers wounds

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Four months after the assassination of Tom Mboya outside a Nairobi pharmacy on July 5,1969, President Jomo Kenyatta made a two-day historic official tour of Western and Nyanza provinces to familiarise himself with the development projects.

The country and specifically Luo Nyanza was still tense. Due to the role Mboya had played in the succession politics, spontaneous political instability had erupted pitting Kikuyu and Luo ethnic groups after the Mboya assassin was identified as Mr Nahashon Njenga from Kiambu.

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The president’s entourage arrived in the outskirts of Kisumu town to be welcomed by stone throwing youth lining up the sides of the highway shouting “Ndume, Ndume” as the motorcade zoomed into Kisumu. Police had opened fire sending the youth scampering with gun wounds. Those caught were thoroughly beaten by the security.

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Mr Odinga himself arrived at the playground, the venue of the public rally ahead of the presidential motorcade. Odinga was welcomed with roars of “Ndume! Ndume! Ndume!”, (Bull) the symbol of KPU.

President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to land in Kisumu anytime from now. This happens after the handshake deal that helped seal the friendship between him and the opposition leader Raila Odinga.

The President is headed to a similar mission which the first President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta had planned to to do in the region.

Uhuru will open projects including commissioning of Ahero tarmac road, standard gauge railway project and a new Kisumu port.

Tomorrow, Raila and Uhuru will be awarded an honorary doctorate degree at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology.

The ODM party leader said these are part of the benefits the public will enjoy following the handshake between him and Kenyatta.

“We agreed together with Uhuru to end the political animosity and supremacy battle and to forge forward together to unite this country,” said Raila.

He said the results of the Building Bridges Initiative will address every concern ranging from injustices to electoral reforms.

Raila spoke during a night talk show on Radio Ramogi FM on Tuesday.

Do you think this will heal completely the political wounds between Odinga’s and Kenyatta’s?

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