Obadiah Adonijah as the founding Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was called in his early schooling days, completed his primary education at Maranda Primary, having been a disciplined boy.
He sat for his Common Entrance Examination at Maseno School in 1929 and passed, leading to his admission in the iconic school.
However, this would mark the start of trouble, an on and off relationship with the school head Carey Francis and a number of escapes from school and of course punishments.
It began the very same year when the young latter was sent home to bring the 60 shillings needed for school fees.
Since he hated the school and considered the treatment of students at the institution inhumane, he vanished.
He was also against the school food which he termed terrible, leading to his disappearance for a whole year, avoiding both the school and home during the time.
He was however found by Shadrack Osewe, his former headteacher at Maranda Primary, who took him back to Maseno.
When he was approaching completion of his education at Maseno, Carey had to once again chase him in his car after the latter moved out of school in defiance according to the Standard.
He was against Carey's demand that he take up a teaching role at the school upon clearing.
When Carey threatened to kick him out, Oginga packed and left as he wanted to pursue higher education, forcing the white principal to bite the humble pie.
“If my desire for education was to be the cause of my leaving the school, I would be pleased to leave. I packed my bags and left," Oginga wrote in his book, Not Yet Uhuru.
He would later grow to become the nation's Vice President in 1963, before slipping into the opposition in 1966, from where he served until his death in 1994.
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