From child bearing problems to burden of Raila’s name, Junior opens up on life struggles

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Raila Junior, son of political enigma, Raila Odinga has lamented on the struggles he goes through in business due to his surname adding that it does not bother him anymore.

Junior is a serious businessman who owns a production house and he doesn’t name drop.

“I am a businessman who manages his own business. I run a media production house and we mainly deal with the production of TV commercials,”he says.

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He went on to say that having the Odinga surname has not made things easy for him given that his clients place too many expectations on him.

I cannot say business is easy because when people give me business they have expectations.

He also opened up on the struggles he and his wife went through before they were able to conceive their son.

Speaking during an interview with Radio Jambo’s Massawe Japanni, Raila Junior says for five years all they did was hope and wait.

“We waited for a child for five years. Not once did I pressure my wife because both of us were already being pressured out there by friends.

I thank God because he later blessed us with a son.”

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Raila Junior is  married to  Yvonne Wambui whom he wedded in 2011 at a colorful wedding attended by the creme de la creme of the Kenyan society.

Junior, who is a film producer, said people do not give him a job because he is the son of a well-known politician or comes from a famous family, but because of his professionalism and work ethic.

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He also confessed that his first salary as an accountant was Ksh 10,000 and to him, that was a lot of cash.

“My first job was working as an accountant for an aviation company. The job entailed bookkeeping, handling petty cash and just ensuring that things were running smoothly.”

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