Even before their acrimonious fallout in 1966 over ideological differences, founding fathers Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga had their fair share of differences.
Regarded as a communist, Oginga, who was the first Vice President of Kenya, rarely tolerated 'imperialists', who he often accused of exploitation.
For Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, despite being locked by colonialists, he had a soft spot on them, perhaps due to the fact that he stayed and even married from Britain.
Months after independence in 1964, Oginga, then powerful Home Affairs minister and Vice President, gave Assistant Police Commissioner Ian Henderson 24 hours to leave Kenya or face deportation.
The former Bondo MP had accused Henderson of oppressing Africans during colonial times, consequently, he had to vacate the country with immediate effect.
But a furious Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, summoned Mr Odinga and demanded to know why he had taken such an action yet it was under cabinet discussion.
"Mzee Jomo Kenyatta who was not really pleased summoned Odinga and asked him why he had taken the action yet the matter was still under discussion by the cabinet," writes Levin Opiyo, a researcher.
In his Not Yet Uhuru, the former doyen of Kenya's opposition politics noted that he never regretted taking such an action given the record of the cop.
"Mzee you gave me full powers. I would have failed in my duty if l did not get rid of Mr Henderson, he delayed our independence," he reportedly told Kenyatta.
Jaramogi and Kenyatta's sons, Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta could later on face each other for two elections, which ended in dispute in 2013 and 2017.
However, unlike their fathers who were at loggerheads until the death of Jomo in 1978, the two have since reconciled and are working together.