Lawyer Miguna Miguna finally launched his much anticipated and hyped book titled Treason: The Case Against Tyrants and Renegades.
In the book, the self declared NRM General has revealed how Opposition Chief and NASA Leader was afraid of his own swearing in ceremony to an extent that he always shook like a leaf during meetings to plan on the swearing in.
Miguna says that Raila was very afraid of President Uhuru’s threats of charging him for Treason.
Miguna goes ahead to reveal that Raila’s Wife, Mama Idda Odinga and his elder brother Oburu Odinga were strongly opposed to the swearing-in.
He claims that Raila’s own children, Winnie and Junior, accused their mother and uncle of being bad influence on their dad.
“Nyar Gem [Ida] and Oburu are also a big problem. They are the ones putting pressure on him not to be sworn in,” Miguna quotes Raila Junior as saying, adding that he sounded sad that his father was getting old feet.
Miguna recalls one tense strategy meeting in which Junior confronted his father and told him off, saying he risked betraying the aspirations of Kenyans.
“Look at me, Dad,” Junior persisted. Look at me! Why do you think I have been attending these meetings all of a sudden? Ask yourself why…He fixed Raila with a stern gaze. There was total silence in the room.”
At that point, according to Miguna, Raila resorted to intimidating tactics, telling his son “with his teeth clenched” that he was a very experienced politician.
“Yes, I agree that you are experienced…But I am a Kenyan. And right now I don’t trust you,” Miguna quotes Junior as saying.
At that strategy meeting, Miguna says he and Orengo also told Raila to his face he could not back out of the swearing-in.
However, he claims, ex-Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama, whom he knew as very consistently siding with Raila, claiming the that the timing was not right.
“No, Moguuul [Muthama],” Orengo jumped in, coming to our rescue. “We can swear [Wiper leader] Kalonzo [Musyoka] on his return. Or we can travel to Germany and swear him in there. There is nothing in the Constitution that says they must be sworn in together in Kenya,” Miguna writes.
Miguna also claims Raila’s children got infuriated when their their dad spent lots of time with US Ambassador Robert Godec.
Godec and other Western diplomats had declared the oath unconstitutional, attracting the wrath of Raila who claimed they were treating Kenya like a colony.
Do you think that Raila should have followed his instincts and let go of the whole swearing in ceremony idea?