Former Premier Raila Odinga is known for his defiance, which he has repeatedly demonstrated, the latest incident being his treasonous mock presidential oath in January 2018.
But it emerges that Raila has always been a hard nut to crack and was quite rebellious since his younger days, as was revealed by his elder brother Oburu Oginga in 2014.
Speaking during the memorial service of founding Vice President and their father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Oburu revealed how Raila absconded his duties one day.
Being a cotton farmer, Jaramogi had given his sons jobs to do in the morning, but Raila, after oversleeping, told his father to go do the job himself and feel how hard it was.
He said that the angry Jaramogi gave the ODM leader such a serious beating that it took the intervention of a neighbour to save him (Raila) from the angry hands of the father.
“Raila overslept and when asked to give reasons why he did not perform his duties, he told Jaramogi to do it himself so that he may experience how difficult the job was,” Oburu said as quoted by the Standard.
This was one of the rare incidences where Jaramogi was doing the beating job, a task that was known to be better done by the boys' mother Mary Juma.
In the function that was held in Bondo, Oburu admitted that their mother was worse, as compared to their father who gave a punishment in comparison to the crime done.
“He had measured punishment unlike my mother who could give you an uncountable number of canes,” said the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) parliamentarian.
In 1992, Raila again demonstrated his rebellion when he stormed a Ford Kenya National Delegates Conference which his father was charing at the City Stadium.
He was accompanied by a group of youths who were chanting and waving twigs and though Oginga managed to hush him down, he managed to drive his point home.
Ironically, he was later the same year elected the Langata MP, after another round of collisions with former president Daniel Moi which saw him take shifts in detentions and prisons.