Raila Odinga meets Lord Mark Malloch Brown in the UK. [Photo/ Nairobi Wire]

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Revelations that Raila Odinga’s trip to the United Kingdom over the weekend was about reporting to his foreign masters about the progress of the alleged coup plot are very disturbing to patriotic Kenyans.While in the UK, where had gone to give a public lecture at Chatham House, the former prime minister met the boss of a company that rivals OT Morpho, the French firm providing IEBC with voter-identification technology. Raila shared on his social media pages photos of his meeting with former United Nations deputy secretary general Lord Mark Malloch Brown, who is now the chairman of Smartmatic — a company that lost to OT Morpho in IEBC tenders. Many Kenyans online raised questions on why Raila was meeting the head of OT Morpho’s rival at a time he has been calling on IEBC to deny the French company the contract to identify voters in the repeat polls. Before the August 8 general election, Raila wanted Dubai-based election material printing firm Al Ghurair barred from being involved in the polls, accusing the company executives of meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta. Isn’t Raila now doing the exact same thing?It is now becoming clear that Raila opposition to the role of OT Morpho is because he wants the company of friends — Smartmatic — to be given the deal, especially considering his claims that there are many companies ready to replace OT Morpho during the elections.Besides being the head of Smartmatic, Lord Malloch Brown works for American billionaire George Soros, who has been funding NGOs and civil society groups to destabilise governments around the world. The local groups and individuals that Soros, through Lord Brown, has funded include Africog, Ndung’u Wainaina, Gladwell Otieno, Boniface Mwangi, among others. All these organisations are openly against the Jubilee administration and most have declared support for Raila. IEBC CEO Ezra Chiloba, who Raila wants out, appears to be a victim for not giving deals to Smartmatic, whose head was Chiloba’s boss at UNDP. It won’t be long before Kenyans know the whole story of this complex plot.