When politics and schemes from Chesamisi High School would make Ruto/Odinga story look like an amateur game of musical chairs

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Lobbying or campaigning to be a prefect was always a delicate affair that involved betrayal of the highest order. Forget about Mudavadi failing to garner a single vote in a polling station where his running mate cast his vote ..... The politics and schemes from Chesamisi would make Ruto/Odinga story look like an amateur game of musical chairs. Here your deskmate would use you and get you suspended if not expelled.
Prefects would normally be appointed by the principal and his staff of able teachers. Weeks before such appointments the school would witness a paradigm shift in discipline and suspensions dished out. The spies or rather vibaraka chasing this lucrative posts would be converted into busy bodies roaming between one office to another with a list of noise makers to a list of suspected pocket radio owners. Some would go as far as seeking favours from the outgoing office holders bribing them with bread or hot(10pm tea made in their cubicles) seeking their endorsement and recommendations.....Woe unto you if they bumped into flavor on your plate(flavor was onion deep fried in oil that would ensure the DH meal was edible ... we would normally prepare it at home stash it in a cocoa tin and make the 3months in school delicious )
During this period most of this campaigners would join the YCS or CU and on Sundays when the principal attended the service, holy spirit would descend on this announted brothers and unleash the prophetic power of speaking in tongues. Some would break into deep Dholuo hoping to pull off this miracle. Those that slept during the service during this period would face the wrath of the annointed servants of the Lord.
The climax of the campaign would always be in classroom. This brothers seeking higher offices would always rush to the staffroom to remind teachers that they were late for a lesson. Picture a man who scored 16% in mathematics rushing to look for the teacher when it is common knowledge that his head and the subject are inlaws ..
Among those that joined this bandwagon was one Griffin. The man was a good friend of mine,a gifted liar and a seasoned schemer with special antics from the rodent species. This was the man who could send you to the deputy principal's discipline chambers at 1 and offer you an avocado when you left the office with your backside aching. Biting and soothing was his tactic. After the intense campaign, the man clinched the coveted DH captain post but as fate would have it, he was suspended the next morning and hounded out of office due to indiscpline.......