Kenya held a state funeral for revered opposition leader Raila Odinga in Nairobi on Friday, a day after security forces opened fire to disperse huge crowds of mourners, killing at least three.

Odinga, 80, died from a suspected heart attack at a health clinic in southern India on Wednesday, triggering a huge outpouring of grief for a man known affectionately as “Baba” (father) by many Kenyans.

“He walked among us as a man but also charged among us as a movement for change, a movement for justice… for a better and greater Kenya,” President William Ruto told the crowd, gathered at Nairobi’s Nyayo stadium for the funeral.

Arguably the most important political figure of his generation in Kenya, Odinga served as prime minister from 2008 to 2013 but never succeeded in winning the presidency de

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