Raila's Daughter Attacked for Sh50,000 House help Salary 'Proposal'

A section of social media users has attacked CORD leader Raila Odinga's daughter following a message she posted on Facebook.

Winnie Odinga was in the post reacting to criticism following her father's attempts to push for electoral reforms in the country but unfortunately rubbed some people the wrong way.

Some Facebook users condemned her for what they termed lack of knowledge regarding the current economic reality.

According to Winnie, the Kenyan middle-class should pay house-helps a monthly salary of sh50,000 to enable them cope with the harsh economic times.

“Middle-class Kenya needs to wake up. Every time you pay someone less than 50,000 shillings a month you are responsible for creating a home in the slum. Surprised? Or did you think 12,500 would afford your house help a chalet in Muthaiga?” she said in the message posted on her elder brother Raila Odinga Junior's Facebook account on Wednesday.

The former Prime Minister's last born expressed her disappointment towards the average class for constantly oppressing the lower class (house-helps).

“Do you think that by making your children call her "auntie" and letting her have Sunday off to go to Church is a satisfactory way of living for her? As you sleep until 8am and she's up at 6 waiting in the cold for the Makini bus to pick your children up while her's walk an hour in this torrential rain to go sit in a dusty classroom, did you expect business to always be as usual for her?,”she added.

Winnie urged Kenyans to join the Opposition brigade in demonstrations to remove the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission from office.

She alleged that the current IEBC was responsible for rigging the last elections that led to the swearing in of a "corrupt, tribalistic, elitist government that had contributed to the woes of the Kenyan lower class".

Here are some of the reactions: