Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga has been urged to his take seriously a piece of advice his elder brother Oburu Odinga gave him recently.
Oburu asked the former Prime Minister to withdraw his support for President Uhuru Kenyatta should the Head of State relent on the war on corruption.
The East African Legislative Assembly (Eala) MP observed there were signs Uhuru was not making any headway in his renewed purge on graft fight and cautioned his brother that staying in the handshake arrangement would harm his anti-corruption credentials.
“The corruption war should be sustained and if there any signs of reluctance to continue with the war on graft when it was the cardinal principles of the handshake then I do not think he (Raila) should be comfortable staying in the arrangement,” Oburu remarked.
According to US-based lawyer Makau Mutua, Oburu was on point, and, therefore, the ODM leader should be very cautious in his newfound relations with the Jubilee leader.
"Raila’s elder brother, the veteran Dr Oburu Odinga, knows a thing or two about Byzantine political intrigue. Only a fool would take his advice to his younger brother Agwambo lightly," Mutua wrote in his column on the Sunday Standard.
The lawyer also noted the handshake could finally be Raila's cause of downfall despite having entered to it with intent to help Uhuru win the war on corruption.
"Oburu is concerned that his brother will be used by Kenyatta and then dumped. Or that his brother will be politically neutered because of his association with Kenyatta if the graft war is fake. I agree with the good doctor – complicity would doom Agwambo’s great legacy," said the chair of Kenya Human Rights Commission.