Ruth Odinga pressures govt on progress of 10-point agenda ahead of March review
By Ndiritu Wanjiru, February 3, 2026Kisumu Woman Representative Ruth Odinga has called on the government to announce progress on the implementation of the 10-point agenda.
Taking it to her social media handles on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, Ruth has said that if the government side is keen on the implementation of the 10-point agenda that was agreed upon between the former ODM party leader, the late Raila Odinga, and President William Ruto, compensation of the victims of protests should be a priority.
Ruth has said that among the ten points highlighted, compensation of the victims stood out as important to the late Raila Odinga and therefore should be effected.
“One of the ten points that was at the heart of the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga was the right to peaceful assembly, and compensation for all pending claims of rights victims. In Kenya, the responsibility for creating a compensation formula for victims of state violence – specifically those killed or injured by state authorities during demonstrations – falls in the hands of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR). Why no single victim has been compensated can best be attributed to lack of political goodwill. That we had to create the Panel of Experts on Compensation of Victims of Demonstrations and Public Protests explains it all. Now that it is clear how the compensation should be done, can we see progress? “Ruth said.
Progress of the 10-point agenda to be reviewed
With the review of the ten-point agenda’s implementation slated for March 2026, Ruth has said that an evaluation of the progress made since March 2025 will need to be conducted.
“We must pursue the 10-point agenda, which includes the implementation of the National Dialogue Committee (NADCO) Report. On Electoral Justice, the Report proposed a 9-member panel to reconstitute the IEBC, which has since been achieved. But there was the aspect of an audit of the 2022 presidential election by experts and a framework for reviewing boundary delimitations,” Ruth added.
Ruth has blasted leaders who are claiming that Raila Odinga spoke to them before his death. She has called on the leaders to speak about the values the late Raila Odinga believed in, which were well captured in the ten-point agenda and whose implementation success remains a subject of debate, with many Kenyans not satisfied.
It is right to have a divergent opinion
Ruth has argued that the late Raila Odinga was not a gossiper, and he would speak with everyone regardless of their position in society, and this is a story those who knew him understand pretty well.
Ruth has called on anyone telling Kenyans that Raila had a series of private conversations with him on a wide range of issues is lying and must be called out.
Ruth has added that she is not against negotiations ahead of the 2027 elections and that people should not view any divergent opinion as misconstrued to mean this. She has, however, said that this should not stop her from asking questions, particularly around the ten-point agenda that was the basis for the broad-based government.