William Odongo Omamo, the father to current Defence Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, made history as one of the funniest Luo Nyanza politicians throughout his 41 years in politics.
He first ascended to the Bondo parliamentary beat in 1969, after Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's fallout with then-President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta earlier in 1966, which saw him banned from elective politics.
Omamo quickly resigned from his teaching job at the Egerton University in Nakuru to take a shot at the seat and succeeded during the one-party leadership system.
He would then briefly lose the seat to John Ougo in 1974, before recapturing it in the 1980 by-elections and elected again in 1983, this time with President Daniel Moi's blessings.
And even as a Minister in Moi's Cabinet, he kept hopping all over, being nominated, sacked, then nominated again in another docket, an art he had perfected.
This he did by humbling himself to the President after each sack, seeing him always make a comeback after each ouster.
And when Oginga regained his footing in 1992, two years to his death, Omamo vacated the Bondo landscape and concentrated on Kisumu County's Muhoroni constituency where he owned a vast sugarcane and cattle farm.
Thanks to his popularity and well-known hopping character, he was elected the area lawmaker in 1997, this time on Jaramogi's son Raila Odinga's National Democratic Party (NDP) ticket.
He exited the seat in 2002 and died in 2010.
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