Nairobi, June 25 -- Kenya has kicked off preparations to build a tomb and a mausoleum for the late Raila Odinga in Kang'o ka Jaramogi in Bondo, Siaya County, revealing a mix of unique fittings and features of the facility to be built by the National Museum of Kenya (NMK).

Odinga, a former Prime Minister, long-time opposition leader, and a central figure in Kenya's post-independence politics, died in October 2025 while receiving treatment in an Indian hospital. He was 80 and was accorded a State funeral.

Proposals seen by the Business Daily revealed that Odinga's memorial tomb would measure six square metres and be clad in imported Italian Carrara marble-- a coveted premium natural stone quarried in the Apuan Alps of Tuscany, Italy.

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