Raila Odinga

thumb Raila Amolo Odinga CGH (7 January 1945 – 15 October 2025) was a Kenyan politician who served as Prime Minister from 2008 to 2013. Quotes We’ve made a number of promises and we know they cannot all be fulfilled or implemented in one go. Therefore there will be phased programme of implementation. But when I outlined my vision for this country I started with infrastructure and I mentioned it three times. I said that’s where we would start, because I believe that infrastructure is the best way to jump start an economy that is suffering from somehow depression. Then of course the port, we want to expand the port of Mombasa, because a number of countries that are landlocked depend on it. Uganda next door is our biggest trading partner, but it is complaining that inefficiency in our port is hurting its economy. It takes a minimum of 14 days to load a container from a ship on to a truck in Mombasa. It takes a maximum of 48 hours in Dubai to do the same thing. We want to privatise the port, make it a free port like Dubai, make it more efficient, and expand it. I also wanted to talk about judicial reform, because to make the system more efficient we must reform the judiciary. The corrupt judiciary is an impediment to a functioning democracy and scares away investment. Cases take too long to be heard. We will carry out genuine reforms of the judiciary to make it more responsive to the needs of the country. Raila Odinga: Interview transcript External links Category:Politicians from Kenya Category:1945 births Category:2025 deaths