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Saitoti often ran after his temper, Ojode thrilled

By KIPKOECH TANUI

As we mourn Prof George Saitoti, Joshua Ojode, and others killed in the Sunday chopper crash, let’s go down memory lane to Eighth Parliament. In 1996 as a parliamentary reporter, I found Saitoti, a vicious Kanu loyalist at war with his temper, which when he lost the upper sides of his face would twitch like a camera’s shutter, veins popping out!

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