The story is making circular moves on social media with many blaming his wife, Mama Ida for not grooming his husband before he left house. In a phone interview with a local website, this is what Ida said:

 “Can such a thing happen under my watch really? I am a fashionista for crying out loud.

“I am the one who has been dressing my man and it is like some of you are not aware. Can I allow him to leave the house with torn shoes? Never.”

“I have been taking care of Raila all these years and nothing of such kind as ever happened. This is a very small thing that should not even worry me,” she said.

“As smart as I have been always, there is no single day I have let my husband down. He cannot leave the house unless I approve that he is smart. He has to be smart, that is key.”

“If you look at Raila in all occasions does he not look smart? That is my work, and it will remain that way, the shoes issue was just an accident,” she said; implying that the shoe got spoilt after Raila had already left the house.

Mrs Odinga questioned if the type of suit Raila wore on that day was worth putting on with the torn shoe.

“Look at the suit that my husband wore on that day. It was classic even the shoes; were leather shoes," she said.

Source: Nairobi News