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Kenya: ‘Jeshi La Baba Ni Akina Mama,’ Azimio Women’s Movement Behind Odinga Launched

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Nairobi — Women leaders allied to Orange Democratic Movement Leader Raila Odinga have launched a strategy movement aimed at mobilizing support for Azimio La Umoja Movement.

Dubbed ‘Jeshi la Baba ni akina mama’, the movement was unveiled on Thursday in an event attended by Kitui Governor Charity Ngilu, former Cabinet Secretary and Nyandarua gubernatorial hopeful Sicily Kariuki, Nairobi Governor Anne Kananu, Nairobi Women Representative Esther Passaris and Public Service and Gender Chief Administrative Secretary Beatrice Elachi among others.

The main agenda for the group behind Odinga’s presidential bid being to recruit 27.5 million women across the country to rally behind his bid.

“We are pleased to announce that our MOVEMENT, has found a partner in a man who has stood with Kenyan women, our patron, and presidential candidate Rt Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga.We will be Baba’s army in the streets and village as we sell the Azimio la Umoja agenda,seek support for him and protect his votes,” they said in a statement.

The women championing Odinga’s bid will also seek to defend the interests of women across the country saying it was the opportune time to awaken the leadership for women leaders.

“Jeshi la baba ni akina Mama will seek to have the voice of mothers in a village in Nyeri County who is struggling to raise her children as a single mother heard, and the place of a widow in Mandera burdened with the responsibility of feeding her children recognized,”they stated.