Just like his son and current President Uhuru Kenyatta, founding father, the first President of Kenya Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was also known for his hot temper and anger when provoked.
He demonstrated this one day, months after his 1961 release from prison, while when he was addressing a public meeting at the Cumberland Hotel in London, someone threw stuff at him.
The angry Kenyatta looked at the thing hurled at him and found out that it was entrails of a chicken, which drove him mad with anger as the crowd watched and gasped in shock.
According to his lawyer Fitz De Souza, the angry Kenyatta drew a gleaming blade from his walking stick, which he was ready to use, before De Souza managed to cool him down.
De Souza says that he charged into the crowd to attack before the lawyer managed to convince him that murder charges would be hard for him to overcome should he have committed it.
"There was a gasp as we saw Kenyatta take up his walking stick, and drawing from it a gleaming blade, spring into the audience. I ran forward to restrain him, which was not easy.
He was so strong, his anger immense. Grasping both his hands in mine, as he continued to shake with rage I said: “Jomo, think please, I cannot defend you against a charge of murder," says the Goan in an article on the Nation.
Seeing the anger on the face of the heavily bearded man, the man who had thrown the chicken remains took off and Kenyatta had forgotten all about it in the next few hours.
He was hours later drinking with his close friend who would become his first Vice President Jaramogi Oginga and joking that the VAT 69 on the liquor label is the pope's phone number.
Kenyatta would again demonstrate his ability to get overly angry when he threatened to crush Oginga into flour during the launch of the Nyanza General Hospital in Kisumu in 1969, three years after their fallout and Oginga's resignation.
The incident left many dead and scores injured when Oginga's supporters hurled stones at the president.
They were demanding answers for the assassination of Kenyatta's Labour Minister Tom Mboya, a son of the land, who had been killed in Nairobi months earlier.