There is a great history and much to be admired about the wife to the Opposition Leader Raila Odinga.
Ida Odinga has gone through a lot as a mother, and a wife to the Kenyan senior politician, being affected directly and indirectly with the major political events in the country.
After she earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nairobi, she went on to become a teacher, the profession she served for more than 20 years.
It happened as God’s preparation plan for her incoming difficulty, as the man she had married got imprisoned as a political prisoner in 1982 under the government of Moi.
Raila was released on 12th June 1989, only to be incarcerated again on 5th July 1990, together with Kenneth Matiba, and former Nairobi Mayor Charles Rubia, the multiparty system and human rights crusaders.
Raila was finally released on 21 June 1991, and in October, he fled the country to Norway amid indications that the increasingly corrupt Kenyan government was attempting to assassinate him without success.
During this period, Ida used the little money she earned from teaching to provide for her own children, an experience she admits it was tough.