the British soldiers in a brutal war that

led to our independence.

While independence was meant to

break the country from any colonial

yoke and hangover, it came as shock

that the all the tools colonial-

ists used such as demeaning

constitution that they used to

misrule Africans became a

handy tools to both Kenyatta

and Moi leadership.

At independence which in a

sense was a stillbirth there

became two distinct forces one

led by Jaramogi Oginga and

others who wanted resources

shared equally across all Kenyan re-

gions and another by ruthless capital-

ists led by Kenyatta who wanted re-

sources amassed at the center with

President as the main guy to consider

who and which region gets what.

Cont…..Pg 2

It’s not easy to imagine Kenya

without Raila and what the

country governance would be

today without him. While many

young people today may not have the

benefit of history to understand where

the country is coming from

or what it went through, few

can connect the struggles of

Raila to the many freedoms

enjoyed in the country today

but much more the devolved

system that guarantees

equitable distribution of

national resources to all

corners of the country re-

gardless of the political

affiliations.

While many may not appre-

ciate ideological differences

between many political parties in the

country as many as they come,one

distinction that has kept Raila apart

from the rest is his undying belief in

social democracy where everyone

counts, human rights and rule of law.

A liberal democrat with rare courage

to face the unthinkable challenges,

Raila took up from where his father

left to see Kenyans realize the new

constitution as a means to free them

from the colonial constitution that

Kenyatta and Moi leadership so cher-

ished and used to reign havoc on the

Kenyan people.

When Jaramogi Oginga wrote Not yet

uhuru shortly after independence

some Kenyans felt he was too quick

to take fault with Kenyatta leadership

but was he not right. Many Kenyans

looking back today agree that indeed

Kenyatta went against the expecta-

tions of many Kenyans and freedom

fighters who risked their lives to fight

We proposed the

change of name Or-

ange young demo-

crats league (OYDL)

to ODM youth

league (ODMYL).

We deliberated and

thought that this

league needed a

name that is catchy

and one that does not

need an explanation

on its link to the

main party. So our

name will be ODM

YOUTH LEAGUE

with abbreviations

ODMYL

Raila Odinga being arrested

RAILA ODINGA: HIS CONTRIBUTION TO

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

REBRANDED

OYDL TO

ODMYL

1

THE NEW

ODM NA-

TIONAL

YOUTH CO-

ORDINATOR

2

THE ODM

YOUTH

LEAGUE CON-

STITUTION

3

YOUTH LEAD-

ERS AND

YOUTH MCA’S

COUNTY-

TRAININGS

REPORT.

4

ODM YOUTH LEAGUE REBRANDING

ODM YOUTH LEAGUE

T H U R S D A Y 1 2 T H D E C 2 0 1 3 R E S T I N P E A C E T A T A

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CE L E BRA TE

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ODM YOUTH

LEAGUE

NE W SL E TTE R!

E NJ O Y !

N E W S L E T T E R

Rest in Peace Tata of Democracy in Africa !

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Call

0720407988

When the youth leaders

from Norwegian politi-

cal parties came to visit

our secretariat. THE NEW ODM NATIONAL YOUTH

COORDINATOR

The central system that was

adopted by Kenyatta became the

hallmark of corruption and nepo-

tism that enslaved the country for

close to fifty years and make no

mistake the poverty gripping mil-

lions of youth in the country, bro-

ken infrastructure and uneven de-

velopment in the country is directly

related to the dislocations of unitary

system of government.

This state of affairs is what Raila

and ODM movement are struggling

to change. It is what defines us as a

political party.

Kenya as a country owes Raila and

other genuine third liberation pio-

neers who made it possible for the

country to attain new constitutional

dispensation that makes it possible

for once neglected areas of Tur-

kana, Lamu, Pokot, Kakamega

among others to realize the fruits of independ-

ence by way of devolution..

Their selflessness has now earned the country a

place in history as the first African country to

have a revolutionary constitution that can large-

ly be defined as peoples coup against wayward

leaders who use state power to manipulate and

brutalize their own people.

That people can be allowed the independence

of thought and exercise their free democratic

rights and still get their fare share of allocation

from government was just a few years back

unthinkable possibility but the danger of the

country going back to the dark old repressive

days is now more real than five years ago. It’s

only the forest that has changed but the mon-

keys who messed the country before have re-

grouped threatening to reverse the gains the

country has so belabored to have.

By Omungo Isaac He works at the ODM secre-

tariat as a regional coordinator for Western.

voting to ensure neutrality of

the process. After compilation

of the results the panel deliber-

ated on it and took a vote. We

therefore would want to create

a fully fledged secretariat un-

der him to carry out youth

activities country wide in order

to achieve our dream of crea-

tion of a strong, vibrant ODM

Youth League.

BENSON Musungu is 27yrs

old and married, He hold a

diploma in Information Tech-

nology, another one in theolo-

gy and a certificate

of proficiency in insurance and

finance. Currently he is under-

taking Bsc degree in leadership

and management at Interna-

tional Leadership University.

Leadership experience

*Am a member of the Na-

tional youth council

*I was Deputy secretary

general of orange young

democrats league

*Was a scout leader.

*Board member Spur Afri-

ka.

*Was a Public relations

officer at Youngsters for

Christ team.

*Youth, sports and environ-

mental head at Starehe con-

stituency CDF.

We appointed Ben-

son Musungu to be

our National youth

coordinator after

The panelist ad-

ministered the

interviews out of

the 3 contestants.

Hon Zulekha Has-

san chaired the in-

terview which lasted

for one and half hours. The

chairperson of the panel was

barred from awarding marks or

O D M Y O U T H L E A G U E

Orange House, the ODM

Party headquarters on

Menelik Rd.

THE ODM YOUTH LEAGUE APPRECIATION

P A G E 3 R E S T I N P E A C E T A T A

Your Excellency our party lead-

er and all the leaders of our es-

teemed party, allow us to start

by thanking

you and all members of this

party.You have given the youth

of this party space to articulate

their issues through its leadership

by forming the youth league. Factu-

ally we have made a lot of progress

since the inception of the youth

league. Some of our members are

now in elected offices,others have

been nominated at different levele

and other are climbing up the party

ranks to take part in the party main-

stream leadership courtesy of the

ODM Youth League.

The youth lobby groups that were present

were;- ODM youth

2012,yfora,y47,sibanduki,Kyf, Odm youth

reloaded, Cord effect, Orange youth con-

gress, ODM reloaded, cord strategic team

2013.In attendant was ODM Director opera-

tions Caesar Asiyo. Among the issues raised

were;-Luck of youth involvement in cam-

paigns, recognition and ODM’s shambolic

nominations.

It was resolved that we create a consortium

on Facebook and or whatsaap where we can

be consulting on party matters before posting

On 5th Nov 2013 we invited ODM bloggers

and youth lobby groups that helped the party

in the last election campaign. This was a

meeting that had never happened before in

the party.

The main aim of the meeting was to just meet

them and recognize the work they do for the

party voluntarly. To have a well structured

way of working together to built our party,

To popularize our ODM Youth League pages

and groups and to find how we can well

structure our social media communication as

the party.

them on the social media.

that they take up there position in

the leadership of the party then

eventually this nation. We are on a

journey to make a vibrant youth

league in this nation that will make

ODM to be a party of the moment.

A strong youth league is a strong

ODM party. So far we had had 3

national officials who attended the

Program for Young Politicians from

Africa (PYPA). We have also had

over 112 youth leaders in 28 coun-

ties trained by CMD, through FES

we have a program that is now

training five youths from different

constituencies.

After the general election as the

youth league leadership we thought

our youth had not been fully in-

volved in the general elections ful-

ly, the youth remained to be the

security to the dignitaries and spi-

rants at all levels. To get out of that

culture we realized that we must

train our youth so us to make sure

The Nation-

al Executive

committee

of the ODM

Youth

League in a

past event at

orange hse.

YOUTH LEADERS AND MCA’S

TRAININGS AND EXPOSURE

ODM BLOGGERS AND LOBBY GROUP FORUM

Leaders of different youth lobby groups and ODM

bloggers at orange hse after the meeting.

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ing out a training dubbed youth and

communication whereby through it

we have trained at least four youth

On the 1st of July 2013,I assumed

office which my predecessor Hon

Zuleikha Hassan was before her ten-

ure ended by being nomi-

nated to parliament to

represent the youth.

Since then I have had an

opportunity to learn the

rules of the game with

some advices from my

predecessor and the

Secretary general of the

youth league John Keto-

rah.

I managed to set up a

workstation where I have

been operating from, so

we have managed to negotiate

training programs for our youth

in the counties which are as

follows:- CMD has been carry-

and up to eleven Mca’s in 28 counties.

program for young politicians from

Africa (PYPA) through the NDI has

trained 3 national youth leaders,

Political Leadership and Govern-

ance Program( PLGP) by

Fredrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) is

ongoing training five youth lead-

ers.

Our youth leaders have had an

opportunity of attending differ-

ent seminars both on Kenya

and abroad. And lastly we em-

barked on constitution making

of the youth league to enable us

operate with some order. We

are awaiting for the time when

the youth NGC will adopt it so

us we can forward it to the party

NDC to ratify. Any input sugges-

tion is welcome.

NATIONAL YOUTH COORDINATOR

P. O BOX 2478-00200 NAIROBI

TEL 020-20253481

FAX:020-207-7713

Phone: +254 720 407 988

ORANGE HOUSE MENELIK ROAD

KILIMANI AREA NAIROBI

E-mail: odmyouthl@gmail.com

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stories and pictures for the

next edition. Use the contact

details on the panel on the

left

Deadline for submission 14th

February 2013.

ODM YOUTH LEAGUE

NATIONAL YOUTH COORDINATORS DESK

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"maisha bora kwa vijana"

JOHN KETORA ODMYL SG,HON MAGERER LANGAT

ODM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,MARTIN MUTHUSI THE

ACTING ODMYL CHAIRMAN AND BENSON

MUSUNGU THE ODM NATIONAL YOUTH COORDI-

NATOR WHEN WE PAID THE ED A CURTESY CALL

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