I recently visited Raila Odinga (now deceased) at his private office in Kileleshwa. He had invited me to discuss the government’s recent decision to lease sugar companies – and to reflect on some of the major projects taking shape in Kisumu.
An engineer by training, Raila was in his element talking about manufacturing. His eyes lit up as he recounted how, as a young engineer, he had set up an LPG manufacturing plant from scratch – working out of a modest shed allocated to him by the Kenya Industrial Estates.