A week ago, the nation celebrated the 25th death anniversary of founding Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
Jaramogi held the position between 1963 and 1966 before strong forces surrounding then-President Jomo Kenyatta succeeded in throwing him out of government.
By 1965, Oginga was already grappling with allegations of being a communist sympathizer over his close toes wit China and Russia.
This was at the time a characteristic considered dangerous to the nation, and one that was used as a trick to lower him in the eyes of Kenyatta and it finally succeeded.
Hatched by then-Attorney General Charles Njonjo and some British top officials, Oginga had by 1965 lost his initial touch with Kenyatta.
Unlike initially when he had uncontrolled access to the president, he could now only see him on appointments.
The 1966 Limuru Conference struck the last nail on his political coffin when it abolished his KANU Deputy Party Leader slot.
This left him hanging in the air and uncertain about what was going to hit him next.
This came a year after the death of his strategist Pio Gama Pinto and the transfer of some of his powers to Njonjo's office by Kenyatta's handlers.
The team was otherwise called the Mt Kenya Mafia and had taken itself with the role to see that the seat remains in Central Kenya.
They considered Oginga a threat to Kenyatta's rule and his possible successor in the coming days.
The government had also rejected some goodies he had negotiated for the nation from Russia, one of his friend nations.
Unable to stand the humiliation he was experiencing in the hands of Kenyatta's men, Oginga resigned and moved to the opposition.
This was also a major win for his main rival both nationally and in Luo Nyanza Tom Mboya.
Until his death in January 1994, Oginga was always on the opposite sides with the government and was repeatedly banned from politics.
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