Eleven days after founding Vice President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga resigned from the first government citing sabotage, a group of allied leaders followed him into the opposition.
Oginga tendered his resignation on 14 April 1966 citing mistreatment by President Jomo Kenyatta's handlers, some of whom he claimed were operating from behind the curtain.
4 days later, 27 MPs and nine Senators resigned from the Kenya African National Union (KANU) to join him, but the funniest resignation in Kenyan history would come 7 days later.
On April 25, then Cabinet Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ramogi Achieng' Oneko followed suit in an expected move, as he was a close ally of Oginga.
In his resignation letter tendered to the ageing Jomo, Oneko said that he decided to fire himself as the President was taking too long to sack him.
"I have waited too long to be dropped from the Cabinet and have now decided to quit with no apologies or regrets to make," the statement read, according to the Standard.
Aneko who also fought for freedom from the British and was part of the Kapenguria 6 team was at the time the Member of Parliament for Nakuru Town.
The group went on to join Oginga's new Kenya People's Union (KPU) union.
However, this marked the start of hostility from the government side which put the group under constant surveillance and watched each of their steps.
The biggest victim was Oginga who was considered the leader of the pack and a threat to the government's well being, thanks to his international links.
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