DP Kindiki unveils Sunday's final burial programme for Raila Odinga

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki, co-chair of the National State Funeral Committee, has revealed the details of the burial ceremony for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga slated for Bondo, Siaya County on Sunday, October 19. 

In a statement issued on Saturday, the DP stated that an interment service would be held at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University from 9am until 1pm, followed by committal, final prayers and military honours at the gravesite at Kango Ka Jaramogi, Bondo. 

He revealed that more details would be announced following the interment rites performed on Sunday. 

"The National State Funeral Committee will announce details of subsequent events and activities to further honour the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga after tomorrow’s interment rites," the statement read in part. 

DP Kindiki also lauded the public for maintaining decorum during the public viewing exercises held in Nairobi and Kisumu. 

"The National State Funeral Committee is immensely grateful to the members of the public, security professionals and emergency personnel for managing, to the best possible way, the public viewing of the mortal remains of the departed former Prime Minister of Kenya Raila Odinga," he stated.

Raila's body was airlifted from Nairobi to Kisumu for public viewing at the Jomo Kenyatta Stadium in Kisumu on Saturday. Thereafter, the body was flown to Opoda Farm in Bondo to give the public the final chance to view the remains of the former Prime Minister. 

The late Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader is expected to be buried at a private ceremony attended only by a few people, according to the family.

“We will give Raila a dignified send-off which he deserves, as a dignified son of this land. The programme will end with a burial ceremony at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, and then later on Raila will be buried next to our mum and dad…in a private burial (ceremony) which will be attended only by a few people,” Raila’s elder brother Dr. Oburu Oginga, who also acts as the co-chair of the State funeral committee, stated on October 16, 2025.