PREMIUM Trial of Raila Odinga and the unfinished business In RAO and his trial, Kenyans stand accused of all the charges that he faces. Weekend Just now

PREMIUM Raila, the President Kenya never had, accorded State honours in death An enigma of Kenyan politics, Mr Odinga had for close to four decades amassed huge political support base spread across the country.

In the courtroom are several witnesses, including living and dead Kenyan politicians; academics; ‘the ghost of the post-election victim of 2007; ‘the spirit of the 2010 constitution; ‘the spirit of a Luo youth’; ‘the shade of Kalonzo Musyoka’; ‘the spirit of internal party democracy’; ‘the ghost of an ODM defector’; ‘the spirit of Dalmas Otieno Anyango’; ‘the specter of Charles Njonjo’; ‘the specter of Mirugi Kariuki’; ‘the spirit of Peter Habenga Okondo’; ‘the ancestral spirit of Jaramogi (RAO’s father)’; ‘the personification of the Second Liberation’; ‘the personification of ODM’; ‘the ghost of a rehabilitated political prisoner’; ‘the spirit of the handshake’; ‘the collective chorus of the marginalized’; ‘the ghost of Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi’; ‘the spirit of Ronald Ngala’; ‘the luminescence of Wangari Maathai’; ‘the spirit of Bishop Alexander Muge’; ‘the spirit of Professor Ali Mazrui’; ‘the spirit of political metamorphosis’; ‘the spirit of Professor William Ochieng’.

Both Mboya and Njenga, one a dreamer of the spirit of the nation-state called Kenya and the other the assassinator of the dreamer, are revived in this polemical drama because they are men who Kenyans seem to have forgotten.