Siaya Senator James Orengo has revisited his days as a participant in the push against a single-party system imposed by the Nyayo regime.
In a tweet Thursday, the leader who repeatedly found himself behind bars over said that he and his colleagues became used to detentions and police cells.
One of his colleagues with whom they always landed with in custody was then Butere MP Martin Shikuku, with whom he says they made it a habit to wear warm clothing just in case they were nabbed.
"Shikuku and I wore or carried warm clothes as was the practice because we always ended being locked up in cold and damp cells or prisons," he wrote.
On one incident, he said, accompanied by an old black and white photo, they were arrested after attempting to run away on a Pajero after their pickup truck was allegedly shot at.
He says that they ended up in the hands of the police alongside then Kitale East MP Masinde Muliro and Philip Gachoka, one of the Ford Party founders.
"This is the day we went to Kamukunji on the pick-up van. We jumped into the Pajero after the van was shot. This picture was taken at the old Kariobangi roundabout where we (Muliro, Shikuku, Gachoka and myself) were blocked and arrested by the police," he added.
According to the Nation, the incident happened on November 16, 2001, when the group, was headed to Kamkunji grounds before they were arrested.
Police would later scatter a crowd that had gathered and arrested the leaders to be charged in rural courts, after the arrests of a number of their compatriots the previous night.