ODM Leader Raila Amolo Odinga on Friday attended the burial ceremony of the late Justice Otieno Odek in Asembo, Siaya County. The opposition leader left the mourners in stitches as he taught them what it means for lawyers to refer to themselves as learned friends.
The African Union Special Envoy was accompanied by several leaders including Siaya Senator James Orengo during the burial.
In his speech, he said that he remembers Otieno as a committed man who wanted nothing but the best for the country during his years in active public service.
“The word learned friend was indebted to a very specific category of people. Before you could study law, you could learn philosophy, you would learn anthropology, you would learn geography and then is when you could be allowed to go and study law. Therefore law was an apex and that is why they were called learned friends because they had learned so many other professions. These days someone has gone to the university just for four years and he calls himself learned friend," he said amid laughter.
The burial comes after postmortem conducted on the body of the deceased showed that he had died of a blood clot in the leg.’
The autopsy was conducted by chief pathologist Johanssen Oduor at the Aga Khan Hospital morgue in Kisumu