Late Msando's son, 6, asks Raila the saddest and hardest question in his life: Who killed my dad?

Raila Odinga on Tuesday evening visited the late Chris Msando’s family, an ICT manager at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) that was killed a few days to election.In the process, the opposition leader found himself facing the hardest and saddest question in his life after his son, who is six years old, asked who killed his dad.Alvin Mitch, a Class Two pupil, greeted the Opposition leader with a smile but the smile quickly faded as he asked a question with eyes focused on Raila.“Who killed my father and why?” asked Alvin.Everyone in the eyes could not provide an answer to the little boy's question. Raila struggled to find words to explain to him but eventually he gathered himself, amid tears, to tell him that no one knows yet but efforts are in place to trace the killers.Raila, who had visited his home in Nyayo Estate, Nairobi, to comfort the family after the killing of his father and was together with Ugenya Senator James Orengo and several others was left in tears after the question.Even journalists in the room were jolted by the question and the way it was phrased. Cameras and microphones pointed at the former Prime Minister shook as some journalists looked away.“We don’t know yet...,” said Raila. “We are trying our best to find your father’s killers and I promise you that we shall. Your father was a great person.”“Whoever did it, God is watching you,” said the boy.It is still unclear whether the government accepted the offer by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s Scotland Yard in assisting to investigate Msando's murder.“It’s heart-breaking and unbearable pain to this young family. It is a Kenyan tragedy. No one has a right to tear at the fabric of life which another man has painfully woven for himself and his children. Msando’s death has degraded our nation,” Added Raila.All election observers called for a speedy probe into his mysterious murder.The family said it believed his murder was connected to the election.“We as a family believe Chris was killed because of his job. If he were still working for the National Aids Council, I know my brother would still be here,” Msando’s elder sister, Pamela, said.