Constitutional lawyer Yash Pal Ghai has laid bare the bad blood existing between him and former Attorney General Charles Njonjo.
Speaking on PointBlank on Wednesday, Ghai said so deep is the enmity that they do not even greet, despite being neighbours.
He accused Njonjo of mistreating and exiling him for 17 years, during his (Njonjo) tenure which ran between 1963 and 1979.
The constitutional lawyer narrated how he had to remain in Tanzania where was teaching at the University of Dare salaam, after getting wind that Njonjo planned to have him locked upon returning.
Ghai said that he is a Kenyan born in Limuru, Kiambu County and is yet to forgive Njonjo for using his powers to settle their differences in such an inhumane manner.
“I am very bitter he (Njonjo) threw me out of my country and profession. He was a very arrogant man. As it is, he lives 100 yards from where I live (but) we don’t greet each other," he was quoted by the Standard.
Ghai who has been involved in constitutional matters in the country narrated how he was warned by his former students working with Njonjo that his arrival would be tragic.
"One day when I was preparing to come to Nairobi, I got a message ‘don’t come’. Some of my former law students who were now working at the AG’s chambers told me ‘you will be locked up immediately," he said.
Njonjo is not new to such claims and has also been accused of spearheading founding Vice President Jaramogi Oginga's troubles which led to his resignation in 1966.