Kenya's founding father, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, was at one time engaged in a scuffle with a journalist outside parliament.
In his memoir titled Forward to Independence, Jomo's lawyer Fitz De Souza revealed that Pio Gama Pinto also told Jomo "I will fix you."
In the book, De Souza narrated how he was taking a tea break outside parliament when he heard someone calling his name.
Upon turning, he realized that an altercation had broken out between Kenyatta and Pinto.
De Souza claimed that both men were shouting at the top of their voices as onlookers watched in dismay.
He dashed behind Pinto and grabbed him using his arms. Somehow, he managed to get him to calm down.
When Jomo had gone, De Souza warned him of the consequences of his actions.
"I warned him not to shout at Kenyatta again as Kikuyus rarely forgive someone who becomes their enemy," De Souza explains in the book.
He then asked Pinto why he called the president "a bastard", and he replied, "Because he called me a bastard first."
Pinto was shot dead at the gate to his house in Nairobi on the morning of February 24, 1965.
