Raila died 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 was expected to be a moment of dignity instead left him troubled and unsettled.
As the delegation prepared for the journey, Sifuna noticed the absence of many people who had benefited from Raila’s long political career.
For a leader who had shaped national politics for decades, the level of support felt thin. To him, it revealed how quickly loyalty fades when power is gone.
The events that followed deepened that anger. Raila was given heavy police escorts and tightly managed ceremonies in death. These were privileges that had often been denied to him while he was alive.
Sifuna viewed this as a painful contradiction. Respect was finally being shown, but too late for it to matter.
There was also frustration over how Raila’s political identity was handled.
For years, party members had honored fallen colleagues by draping coffins in party colors. This had been allowed without resistance.
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.
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