Wiper Boss Kalonzo to Re-Arrange 10-Day UK Tour over Raila’s Death

The Wiper Patriotic Front (WPF) party leader Kalonzo Musyoka will review his trip to the United Kingdom (UK) over the death of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Kalonzo who left the country on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 in his condolence message to the man he twice ran as his presidential running mate said he was going to re-arrange his visit in the UK. “I am therefore rearranging my schedule of engagements in the United Kingdom in honour of my fallen brother. May God rest the soul of Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga in everlasting peace,” said Kalonzo. Kalonzo said that he received the devastating news of Raila’s passing at Heathrow International Airport, London, United Kingdom on a scheduled 10-day tour. The WPF presidential candidate said Kenya has lost an exemplary leader, the President who won but was never declared and sworn into office. “The loss of Rt Hon Raila Odinga is not only a loss to his family and country, but also to the entire African continent,” he said. Kalonzo said Since 2013, when he had the singular privilege of working very closely and passionately with Raila, twice as his running mate both in CORD and NASA, as well as his partner in the Azimio La Umoja – One Kenya Coalition learnt a lot from each other, and, shared a lot of pain together. He praised Raila whom he referred to as Baba in his condolence message was a force of nature that kept on going and going, despite and in spite of the hurdles put in front of him. “Baba was the longest suffering political detainee in Kenya. At the heart of the struggle for multipartyism, Raila’s body bore the scars of the slings and arrows, bullets and batons, that no man or woman should ever endure. Yet, at each point of release from the detention cells and torture chambers, he would raise his arms up to the heavens, his fist clenched in determination; resolved that the tears and painful scars he personally suffered, would yield to democracy and freedom for his beloved Kenya. That is why we call him the Champion of the Second Political Liberation,” Kalonzo said in his tribute.