In his history, founding Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga is not portrayed as a violent man, though he at some point caught anger when he felt provoked.
Such happened when he was involved in a heated verbal argument with his former boss and Kenya's founding President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in Kisumu in 1969, after a massacre that left several dead.
But it appears that the politician and a former teacher at Maseno did not have it entirely smooth with his first wife Mary Juma, the mother of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
It emerges that on one occasion, apparently after a disagreement, he lost his cool and knocked her off at his home in Nyamira, Sakwa Bondo in Siaya County.
Back then, Raila was not yet born, as it was only shortly after the birth of his elder brother Oburu, who was born in October 1943, and after the attack, Mary fled to her father's home in Alego.
There she stayed for six months before returning, with Jaramogi, in his book "Not Yet Uhuru" hinting that a disagreement might have ensued due to his strict house rules.
He says that so in love was he with his first born son that he only wanted him to be breastfed at a specific time, which saw him end up mistreating his 'Mikayi' (first wife) in the process.
“I gave her a timetable by which she was to suckle, wash and care for the child," he writes, describing Oburu as a boy he considered his "new possession".
Mary died in 1984, ten years before Oginga, who left behind several other wives, with the known ones being Betty Adongo, Susan Agik and Gaudencia Adeya.