A lot is said about founding Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's political career, but very little is said about his childhood and youthful days.
The latter was a student at the Maseno School in Kisumu between 1918 and 1921 after completing his primary school education at Maranda Primary School.
It is here that his leadership career seems to have begun, as the school head.
Carey Francis entrusted him with the food perfect and the School Assistant Captain roles.
His roles included ensuring that all was well within the school.
Oginga however, was at some point thrashed four strokes of the cane by the teacher for theft.
On this day, a closing day during his fourth year, Oginga, then Obadiah Adonijah, was doing last rounds for the term after all the students had left for the holidays.
He happened to bump into a tin of paraffin in one of the stores and did not hesitate to empty the fuel into his own tin, happy that he found some fuel to keep his studying during the holidays.
Unfortunately, the lad bumped into the white headteacher who immediately demanded to know what he had in the tin, before taking him back to the school and detaining him in the institution for the next five days.
"I am going to arrest you and take you back to school for punishment!” Carey said as was quoted by Oginga in his boom 'Not Yet Uhuru' which was released years later.
"The principal thrashed me four vibokos and detained me in school for five days for being a thief, " he says in the book.
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