Despite having being been friends and in prison for the same alleged crimes, there was some division between members of the Kapenguria 6.
On one side was five men; Fred Kubai, Kung'u Karumba, Achieng Oneko, Bildad Kaggia and Paul Ngei and on the other was the older Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the most popular of them all.
All men were in jail for allegations of managing the maumau resistance force which was involved in active push for independence from the British.
In 1953, all the men were sentenced to seven tears and had labour at the Lokitaung Prison by Ransley Thacker who had received a £20,000 bribe from the Britons to nail them (the six).
The money amounts to Sh2.6 million in today's value and landed the group in prison, where jealousy overcame the five on seeing Kenyatta being given favours due to his age.
Consequently, they acquired the services of Kariuki Chotara, then a minor in for three murders, and the plan was to stab Kenyatta after picking a scuffle with the old man.
However, Mzee who would later become the nation's first president, was saved by General China (Waruhiu Iote), another inmate ahonjad been captured in the forests of Mt Kenya.
Ironically, Kenyatta would later allocate all the five state positions after independence, while Chotara waited until President Daniel Moi's tenure to make a political breakthrough.