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The Day .@RailaOdinga a former Kenyan Prime minister Dressed Like A Woman To Avoid Arrest

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Necessity is of the mother of invention. When you are in trouble, that is when your creative powers are high. You would do things that would leave you in stitches when you later come to think of them.

Former Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, is perhaps the right person who understands this better. He was once forced to dress like a woman to avoid being arrested by Moi' s government.

Raila was one of the vocal politicians who were agitating for the second liberation of Kenya. The leaders wanted the one- party state, imposed by Moi' s government, to be abolished. Moi was very uncomfortable with this development and had initiated a clampdown on leaders whose

regime had labelled trouble makers. That material day, the police were all over Nairobi and other towns looking for him. Raila and his colleagues were hiding in a house in Nairobi. The time was running out and they to quickly think of an escape plan.

Earlier, they had planned to sneak Raila into the US embassy but the arrangement was aborted by the police

Archbishop Okoth and some other church officials came up with the plan to sneak him out of Nairobi via L. Victoria. Father Kwanga Mc' Opiyo and two nuns were the one who executed the plan.

' It was a delicate journey operation but we had to doit. I was sandwiched between the two nuns on the back seat. I wore dark glasses and pretended to be reading a newspaper. Fr Kwanga was driving, ' ' Raila said.

Luckily, the police who had erected roadblocks did not recognize him. They reached Kisumu at nightfall and he was booked into guest house as ' ' Father' ' Augustine from Machakos. The second part of the risky journey was sneaking him into Uganda through L. Victoria.

' The water was rough and mosquitoes made the journey more difficult. We reached Ndeda Island at night. To avoid suspicion, I used a scarf to disguise myself as a woman, ' ' he added.

In Kampala, dressed like an Imam, he presented himself as Haji Omar after being informed that Kenyan Special Branch officers had been sent to trace him. The foreign officials in Kampala who were aware of what had befallen him, assisted him fly out of the town.

' The police were shocked to hear I was already out of the country. It was a narrow escape and I thank the catholic Church for what they did, ' ' he said.

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Despite Being A Dictator, Ever Wondered Why Amin Dada Was Known For His Smile Face

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