Prime Minister Raila Odinga left the country on Sunday for Germany to undergo laser eye surgery. ODM Spokesman Salim Lone is quoted as saying: “Prime Minister Raila Odinga was travelling with his wife and will be back in Nairobi on Friday.” Lone explained that the procedure was “minor laser eye surgery.”

Raila has been seen on many occasions dabbing his eye with a handkerchief. He attributes the “tears” to bad lighting in jail cells during his long nine year stint in detention-without-trial, five years of which was in solitary confinement and incommunicado at the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison in Nairobi. His only reading material during the detention was the Bible and Quran.

I would like to wish him fast recovery as he undergoes the process. All ODMers should be happy that the captain will twitch his eye no more as a result of Moi’s dictatorial rule.