Raila passed away in October 2025 while receiving treatment in India. Sifuna was part of the team that travelled to Mumbai to receive his body and oversee the return process.
What should have been a moment of dignity instead left him troubled and unsettled.
As the delegation prepared for the journey, Sifuna noticed the absence of many who had benefited from Raila’s long political career.
For a leader who had shaped national politics for decades, the level of support felt surprisingly thin. To him, it revealed how quickly loyalty fades once power is gone.
The events that followed only deepened his frustration. Raila was given heavy police escorts and tightly managed ceremonies in death.
These were privileges often denied to him while alive. Sifuna saw this as a painful contradiction: respect was finally shown, but far too late for it to matter.
There was also anger over how Raila’s political identity was handled. Party members had long honored fallen colleagues by draping coffins in party colors.
In Raila’s case, the same gesture was blocked. Sifuna felt this was an attempt to separate the man from the movement he had led for most of his life..
