{"id":3630,"date":"2025-05-22T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:44:42","slug":"i-am-still-kenyas-prime-minister-says-raila-odinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/i-am-still-kenyas-prime-minister-says-raila-odinga\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Still Kenya\u2019s Prime Minister-Says Raila Odinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: Bryan Wachira<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raila Odinga has dismissed the label &#8220;former Prime Minister,&#8221; asserting that since Kenya currently has no other Prime Minister; he remains the country&#8217;s Prime Minister to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Although the 2010 Constitution eliminated the role of Prime Minister, Raila&#8217;s tenure in that position remains a significant chapter in Kenya\u2019s political history.<\/p>\n<p>Raila stated, \u201cThere cannot be a former Prime Minister because there is no current one. Therefore, it is just \u2018the Prime Minister\u2019\u2014the second Prime Minister\u2014and it remains like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raila became Prime Minister in 2008 following Kenya\u2019s disputed 2007 general election. The post-election clashes led to the deaths of nearly 1,000 people and displaced close to 600,000 others.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jumuiya.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Raila-750x437.jpg\" alt=\"ODM leader Raila Odinga to chair critical party meeting amid leadership jostling \u2013 Jumuiya News\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A peace agreement brokered in February 2008 by then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and African Union Chair Jakaya Kikwete helped resolve the political crisis. The agreement was between the late former President Mwai Kibaki\u2019s Party of National Unity (PNU) and Raila Odinga\u2019s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).<\/p>\n<p>The deal resulted in a grand coalition government and the creation of the Prime Minister position, which Raila officially assumed on April 17, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Raila further called for the abolishment of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), arguing that Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) should focus solely on their oversight and legislative roles, while bursary distribution should be left to county governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Bryan Wachira Raila Odinga has dismissed the label &#8220;former Prime Minister,&#8221; asserting that since Kenya currently has no other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trends"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Raila.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsroomhub.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}