A tour of the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga mausoleum will treat you to a number of lion statues.
The nation's first Vice President and celebrated freedom fighter's rural home in Siaya county has since been transformed into a museum, in what his daughter, and former Kisumu Deputy Governor Ruth Odinga termes as a move aimed at making the new generation conversant with not only his life and death, but the nation's past.
Actually, the destination located in Bondo constituency, 370 kilometres west of Nairobi City has 4 lions, with one placed at the gate, as if taking care of the compound and two at the entrance of the mausoleum.
The fourth one inside the museum lying on the vault containing the departed leader's remains.
According to Ms Odinga in a Daily Nation publication dated a year back, the king of the jungle lying on the vault symbolizes Jaramogi's character throughout his political tenure, noting that he was a lion both as a Luo and on national level, hence the presence of a lion at his resting place to indicate that he has finally given up the fight.
''Jaramogi was a lion both in Luo and at national level when he was alive, this one (on the vault) is to signify that the lion has rested at last,'' she told the paper.
The other lions signify Jaramogi's political life as his election campaign symbol was a lion during the Kanu single party era, before again using the animal as his Ford Kenya party symbol after the division of the bigger FORD outfit.
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