Raila Odinga’s Daughter Winnie Says She Tamarcked For Years Before Getting A Job

From kindergarten college/University, education in Kenya is incredibly expensive.

To provide students with the required skills and information to confront the world after graduation, good quality education necessitates spending money on decent schools.

According to statistics, many people change their career and aspirations as they get older.

For instance, when kids are young, they want to work in fields like law, medicine, or engineering that pay well.

But as kids get older and more mature, the graph flattens out. Most of their early career recommendations shift and are influenced during high school.

Truth is, after spending hundreds if thousand of money in school, it is every parent’s dream is to see their children get a job after graduation.

However, due to the sad affairs of life, majority of graduates end up being jobless.  A bigger number tarmack for years before finding something to do to earn a living.

Those who are lucky to get jobs immediately in Kenya, are those cool kids coming from rich families, especially politicians’ kids.

This bring us to the story of Raila Odinga’s daughter Winnie Odinga. 

According to Winnie, after returning to the country from the United States, where she studied her tertiary education, no employer wanted to employ her.

Winnie Odinga earned a degree in political science from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

In an interview with Iko Nini podcast on YouTube, she said:

“When I came back, Jubilee had just taken over. No one was hiring me. My father was now not the prime minister. It’s Odinga, no way, no job. I tarmacked for like two years. I used to apply for jobs like crazy. I couldn’t get work anywhere” she said.

Winnie claimed that many people avoided her family, especially after her father was defeated in the 2013 presidential election.

“They said he (Raila) he is done, he is finished. People left, everybody left, farewell the friends. I came back and looked at them and there was no confidence, everything was just low. I decided to help where I could,” she said.

She disputed the idea that because of her father’s position as the former prime minister of the nation, she would have an easy time in any endeavor.