Siaya senator James Orengo has vividly narrated how his Laikipia counterpart G.G. Kariuki saved him from an impending police arrest.
Orengo, a renowned lawyer and social rights activist was a persistent critic of both Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi regimes during his youthful days.
And in a heated senate debate on controversial amendments to election laws, Orengo slammed Jubilee senators for defending the government of the day, arguing that politics had no enmity.
“Mr. Speaker, in politics we do not have permanent enmity. What I am seeing in this house is a little amusing because many of us are strictly supporting what they have been instructed,” he said.
“In 1980s, G.G. Kariuki, who was then in a different political camp, tipped me of an impending arrest by the police who had been directed by the state. We were not political friends but he saved me from a political detention,” he added.
Orengo, a former University of Nairobi student leader has been in politics since 1980 and vied for presidency in 2002 in a Social Democratic Movement ticket.