Opposition leader Raila Odinga's clash with the KANU regime in the 1990s saw him through alot, including dressing as a woman at one point.
In a Standard publication dated May 3 2009, the former Prime Minister recounts 'turning into a woman' to evade arrest, after he was enlisted among dissidents over his anti-government policies.
The plan was to sneak out of Kenya and into Uganda, through Lake Victoria, after government spies who were on his tail foiled an initial plan to get to the US embassy in Nairobi.
The plan was hatched between himself and his friends until now, Kisumu Governor Anyang' Nyong'o and Siaya Senator James Orengo, and, ironically, Catholic Archbishop Zacheaus Okoth.
With the then Special Branch officers combing the entire Nairobi city in search of the leader who was fresh from his third arrest, Okoth instructed his officials in Nairobi to cunningly take Odinga to Kisumu, after which the funny but successful plan B was applied.
The then number one second liberation fighter then dressed as a nun and boarded a saloon car, sandwiched between two real nuns and a priest behind the wheel, Father Kwanga McOpiyo, before the journey to Kisumu ensued.
''It was a delicate operation but we had to do it. I sat sandwiched between the two nuns on the backseat. I wore dark glasses and pretended to be reading a newspaper. Fr Kwanga was driving.'' he is quoted.
On reaching Kampala, he changed to an Imam and renamed himself Haji Omar following tip off that his assailants were around, after which he was received by foreign diplomats who were aware of his case before flying out of the country.
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