Raila Odinga’s longtime personal bodyguard, Maurice Ogeta, has broken his silence on the viral clip that had many Kenyans believing they were watching the former prime minister’s final days on camera.
Ogeta sat down for a television interview on KTN News. The interview, filmed in an outdoor patio setting and interspersed with CCTV-style corridor footage, carried a sombre, investigative tone as Ogeta addressed lingering questions about Raila’s final weeks.
What the viral Raila-Ogeta video actually showed
The anchor raised the clip that had been widely shared online, in which Raila is seen walking along a glass-walled corridor in a hospital gown, with Ogeta a few paces behind him.
Many viewers had assumed the footage was captured during Raila’s time at an Ayurvedic centre in Kerala, India, where he spent his final days.
Ogeta was direct in his correction:
“First of all, allow me just to put this one very straight. Whatever clip that was circulated or that went viral or whatever it is in him in a gown this and that and I was behind, that was not the clip of India. That was… That’s the previous clip when we were in Dubai, when he did his first surgery. So I’ll enjoy…” Ogeta said.
The bodyguard’s statement places the footage firmly in an earlier chapter of Raila’s medical journey, during the former PM’s treatment in Dubai, UAE, before he subsequently travelled to India for further care.
Maurice Ogeta: The clip that was trending online of me walking behind Baba, Raila Amollo Odinga, while he was in a gown is an old video of us in Dubai after his first surgery, not in India. https://t.co/nFsMMWWFdW
— KTN News (@KTNNewsKE) October 11, 2026
Recalling the day Raila died
According to Ogeta’s earlier accounts, Raila collapsed on the morning of October 15, 2025 while on a routine walk at the villa where they were staying in India.
He was roughly a metre away from the bodyguard at the time of the collapse and was swiftly rushed to Devamatha Hospital in Koothattukulam, where doctors pronounced him dead.
Raila passed away while in India, and President Ruto subsequently announced his passing to the nation.
The confirmation that the hospital gown clip predates Raila’s time in India clears up a misconception that had attached itself to the footage since the political icon’s death.
What many had interpreted as a farewell glimpse was, in fact, a moment from months earlier during his recovery in the Gulf.
