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Student who kept and rented guns to criminals

Fourteen years ago, Bernard Omondi captured the national psyche after eight guns were found inside a university room presumed to have been his.

Plucked from the unbridled and adventurous life of a university student, Omondi would go on to serve six years in Kamiti Maximum prison, go back to the University of Nairobi and finish his agricultural engineering degree.

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