Amani National Congress (ANC) party leader Musalia Mudavadi, has opened up on his youthful life, and his experience growing up to become a senior politician in the country.
In his book "Soaring Above The Heights of Passion", Mudavadi narrates his experience in high school, and some of the characters that shaped his life back then.
He reveals that before he joined the University of Nairobi, he went through Jamhuri High School, where he only spent a singe term, before joining the Nairobi school.
During his time at Nairobi School, he picked interest in the game of rugby, and was so good at it, that he was nicknamed the "phantom", because of his speed.
He divulged that fellow politician and current Tongaren MP Eseli Simiyu was their dorm monitor, in the elitist school considered for the well off.
It is here that he also met a fellow student; Head Prefect George Nyamweya, openly smoking his pipe, in a school where they were also allowed to wear home clothes when visitors came visiting.
“He also had a car, a Citroen, which would often be parked outside his study room,” he said, adding that the fun would be short lived as the school brought in a new mean head.
“He was a petulant individual given to easy tantrums and completely unable to contain his passions. He seemed to have arrived with express intent of literally bringing down the school," Mudavadi opined.
At one point, Mudavadi was whipped for reporting a senior student, a form five, who was misusing the toilet.
After reporting the matter to House Master George Godia (former Education Principal Secretary), he received a portion of the cane for embarrassing his senior.