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Love, the monster sent to wipe out comrades

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By Oscar Ochieng Ochieng 23rd February 2020 Relationship!!! This term relationship has been misused by many people especially among the youth. You mention the word relationship to a young person then what rings into his/her mind is "love", another misused word. There are many types of relationships but for now I would like to draw your attention to the "major" type which has led to so many people more so the youth getting depressed and ending up giving up on their lives. Sometimes I tend to think that our parents or guardians or maybe our elders are the people misleading us towards this relationship thing. Most of the time when you ask how our parents met then you will hear statements like " we started dating while in campus." This statement sounds very interesting and my fellow youths may want to know how it is to date while in campus and end up getting married and having a complete family but it doesn't work for most of us Or is it our highsc...

What you might not be knowing about the first born son of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga's first born Son Dr Oburu Odinga

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https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001264622/why-oburu-and-his-brother-raila-have-no-christian-names When he was born in October 1943, Oburu Odinga becam e “a new possession” to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. In his book “Not Yet Uhuru”, Jaramogi writes how he welcomed Oburu to the world but also mistreated his mother in the process: “I gave her a timetable by which she was to suckle, wash and care for the child.” Shortly thereafter, Jaramogi had a spat with Oburu’s mum and knocked her down. She fled, with Oburu in tow and stayed for six months at her father’s home in Alego. For a man through whom Jaramogi waged his first battles -- in marriage and in convictions -- it is strange turn that the last pages of Oburu’s political diary are being underlined with failure, rejection and prop-ups. DRAMATIC BAPTISM It is ironic that he was baptised after a man loved by his people, Chief Ng’ong’a Molo, in a dramatic baptism process in which Jaramogi bared his fangs. The Reverend Simon Ny...