Freedom fighter and first Vice President of the republic Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was a troublesome lad back in his youth days.
He always happened to be on the wrong side of the law since his schooling days at the Maseno School, between 1929 and 1934 and was at one point whipped by the then school Principal Carey Francis for an alleged theft of school paraffin.
When he later came back to the school, this time as a teacher, he continued with his mischief, resulting to more collisions with Carey who was still at the helm of the institution.
The mathematics teacher refused to dress like his fellow teachers who were supposed to wear uniforms and openly defied the missionary law which compelled all African teachers in the facility to wear bush jackets, shorts and long stockings.
Instead, Oginga went to John Owuor of Kina in Bunyore and instructed the tailor to make him a suit which he wore with a large hat and completed with a walking stick, a move which faced sharp opposition and criticism from the white Principal.
Oginga who also insisted on using only his African names found himself in trouble one Sunday, when Francis, his fellow arithmetic tutor, went on a rant at the pulpit, firing shots at people who thought they could only be ideal if they wore suits, hats and walking sticks, a shot indirectly aimed at the leader.
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