How Ruto link and sugar networks paved the way for Migori governor

Anyang' Nyong'o, then Kisumu Senator, hides under the podium during the Migori violence. [Scophine Otieno, Standard]

From an accounting teacher in a mission school to cane farming politics and then to first governor of Migori, Zachary Okoth Obado has walked a tightrope to the peak of his career.

At St Josephs Rapogi School in Uriri, he christened his pampered bicycle "Mercedes", and rode it in gumboots which he would dump behind the deputy principal's office for the official moccasin.