Raila Odinga’s texts | US’s Jimmy Carter dies

The former United States of America president Jimmy Carter died aged 100, becoming the county’s president to have ever lived that long.

Following his death, politicians to mention but a few worldwide are mourning him.

From Kenya, former prime minister Raila Amolo Odinga joins President William Ruto to send the messages to the Carter family and the American people.

Below is what Raila wrote:

“Today, the world has lost America’s longest lived president who grew up in and shaped three centuries. Jimmy Carter grew up in a segregated 19th Century America South with its contradictions of freedom and racial discrimination.

“He lived to steer significant 20th century issues including civil rights, women’s rights, human rights, housing rights and environmental conservation. Out of office and marching into the 21st century, Jimmy Carter applied himself fully to matters of conflict resolution, promotion of democracy abroad and sustainable development.

“By and large, his was a typical ordinary humanity story; an epic journey from Georgia as a barefoot farm boy to leadership of the world and winner of the Nobel Prize. Carter believed in and pursued peace minus the militarism that we have today accepted as the norm.

“Under his tenure as president, America never went to a single war around the globe. Instead, he helped the world avert potential wars in Panama, Israel, and Iran, among other places.

“I join the world in mourning this remarkable leader who did more for humanity while out of office than when he was president.”