In 1972, Ugandan dictator Iddi Amin Dada kicked off a storm when he threatened to declare war on Kenya.
He has accused the country of grabbing part of the Ugandan territory.
Amin was ready to go to war with his neighbours to reclaim Ugandan territories he claimed were being occupied by Kenya, claiming that Uganda stretched up to Naivasha.
So shaken was Kenya that the army men in the barracks were already pulling themselves together in preparation for war, against a man who acquired his office through war.
But Amin all of a sudden went silent and halted plans to attack Kenya when he heard that one man, Waruhiu Lote, alias General China, was seeking permission to go for his head.
According to China's wife Margaret Waruhiu, the freedom fighter who was involved in the Mau Mau guerilla wars could not believe that Uganda could declare war on Kenya, which had only years ago defeated the British.
“He couldn’t believe that anyone in his right mind would be courageous enough to attack Kenya after the kind of war they had waged against the mzungu. He was furious,” said Margaret in a Daily Nation story.
Angry, the man who saved founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta from Kariuki Chotara's knife back in Lokitaung Prison left for Nakuru State House to request for Kenyatta's permission to lead troops to Uganda.
In Nakuru, he reportedly promised Kenyatta that he would bring back Amin's head as a gift, which when Amin heard of back in Kampala, went completely silent.
“It is said that while at State House, he asked Kenyatta for permission to lead troops into Uganda and end the threat of war once and for all. He told Mzee that he would bring back Amin’s head as a gift,” Waruhiu wife said.
Ironically, Amin and China were not strangers, after they fought side by side during the Second World War, before fighting with the likes of Dedan Kimathi and Stanley Mathenge in the Aberdare and Mt Kenya forests.