Raila Never Helped me Become Successful – Jakakimba

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Saturday, August 5, 2023 –Nairobi-based lawyer Silas Jakakimba has refuted claims that opposition leader Raila Odinga lifted him from grass to grace.

Responding to Human Rights Activist Boniface Mwangi who had claimed that it was wrong for the lawyer to deny Odinga at the hour of need, Jakakimba said his success is squarely attributed to someone else and not the Azimio leader as claimed by some sections.

“How then could I have been ‘picked’ from poverty at 25? If you respect Raila, leave this line… Whose brief are you holding?” Jakakimba responded to Mwangi.

Activist Mwangi had faulted Jakakimba – once a Raila close aide – for abandoning the opposition leader who had been with him for a period of not less than 19 years.

Jakakimba quickly told him off adding that his success started when he luckily met a kind-hearted American Rotarian who offered to pay his school fees and encouraged him not to drop out of school.

The lawyer further argued that he met Raila decades ago and even played an integral mobilization role in organising a political conference in Seattle, Washington DC, in 2007, where the opposition leader met supporters for his successful presidential bid against Mwai Kibaki.

Mwangi had sought to know why Mr. Jakakimba had started shifting loyalty as well as why he quit Raila’s Orange Democratic Movement ODM Party which moulded him to become a stable public figure.

Mwangi who is a photo journalist by profession then accused the lawyer of not helping Raila in the last general election which he described as ‘key and a decisive fifth stab’.

Mr. Mwangi went on to state that he volunteered to support Azimio free-of-charge knowing very well that Uhuru was not going to help Mr. Odinga win the seat.

In the subsequent post seen by this writer, he argued that he tried to advise Raila and his then running mate Martha Karua not to allow Uhuru to be close to their campaigns because it was going to cost them victory; what came to pass.

The reason Azimio candidate lost the August 9 election, Mr. Mwangi claimed, was Uhuru’s involvement in the campaigns.