The Kenyan political arena seems to be one big family. This is bearing the fact on how many politicians are related or ended up being family following many marriages ties that have brought them together. For example, did you know that leader of opposition Raila Odinga and COTU Secretary General boss Francis Atwoli were related?

This more so comes at a time whereby both ODM Party leader Raila Odinga and Francis Atwoli have all teamed up with President Uhuru Kenyatta against Deputy President William Ruto

The relationship between Francis Atwoli and Raila Odinga was revealed last year by Raila during an event at Ogande Girls High in Homa Bay County. This was during an event that was led by Raila's wife, Ida Odinga who was a former student of Ogande Girls thus has rallied for a harambee that was to raise funds for the school to build a mordern library.

Ida Odinga thus invited her husband Raila as the Chief Guest. When he was invited, Raila Odinga took it to the podium whereby at one point started to describe his wife's journey to success. It is here that Raila mentioned his relationship with Francis Atwoli

"Ida's mother was left with 6 children and she refused to be inherited. This mother single-handedly raised her six children and gave them education. Ida is actually Francis Atwoli's cousin, her mother comes from Khwisero in Western Kenya," Raila posed.

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