{"id":921008,"date":"2022-01-31T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/31\/famous-kakamega-estates-named-after-its-most-revered-sons\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T06:48:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T06:48:14","slug":"famous-kakamega-estates-named-after-its-most-revered-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/famous-kakamega-estates-named-after-its-most-revered-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Kakamega estates named after its most revered sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xezyfk458adgdohuhad61f775eed023c.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Samuel Amalemba and Benjamin Amalemba during interview with The Standard at Litambitsa village in Ikolomani on January 29, 2019.<\/strong> [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Kakamega\u00a0Municipality has two\u00a0famous\u00a0estates\u00a0namely Amalemba and Otiende.\n<\/p>\n<p>Most tenants in the two\u00a0estates\u00a0are the County Government of\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0employees, lecturers of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (Mmust), doctors, teachers and business people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOtiende\u00a0Estate\u00a0was named after the first independence Minister of Education, Housing and Social Services Joseph Otiende. He built many houses in Nairobi and\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0while serving in government then. In his honour, we passed legislation at the\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0Municipal Council to name the\u00a0estate\u00a0after him,\u201d said Sylvanus Otiende Malulu, a former Mayor of\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0Municipal Council.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said Otiende, who died in 2017 aged 100, was much revered by the community for the good work he did while in government.<\/p>\n<p>In Nairobi City County, an expansive\u00a0estate\u00a0in Langata has also been named after the freedom fighter and pioneer educationist.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"HRBNhoisdEM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kakamega\u2019s crying stone and legend cannot stop crying.\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HRBNhoisdEM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Otiende is also credited with writing volumes of policy and sessional papers that shaped the education, health, housing and agriculture sectors. He was the first MP for Vihiga constituency, but quit active politics after losing the seat to Peter Kibisu in 1969. <\/p>\n<p>The former mayor further said the\u00a0famous\u00a0Amalemba\u00a0Estate\u00a0was named after Musa Amalemba, who was the managing director of East African Airways at independence. During his tenure, he employed many Luhyas.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmalemba employed many Luhyas to the East African Airways when he was the MD and it\u2019s for this reason the\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0Municipal Council named an\u00a0estate\u00a0after him,\u201d said Malulu.\n<\/p>\n<p>He went on: \u201cThe town planning committee came up with the name and after passing it, they brought the recommendations to the full council committee when I was the mayor and I appended my signature to their recommendations.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Amalemba served as the North Nyanza MP after the 1961 elections during the colonial rule under the Baluhya Political Union. The party received 3.3 per cent of the national vote and Amalemba was elected. He lost the seat in the 1963 election.\n<\/p>\n<p>Malulu said Kefinco\u00a0Estate, which is off the\u00a0Kakamega-Webuye highway came into existence in the early 1980s. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKefinco was founded when the Finish government, through the Finnish International Development Assistance (FINNIDA), gave the Kenyan government a grant to improve water supply in Western Kenya. When the Kenya-Finland Water project was over, the name was naturally adopted by the locals,\u201d said Malulu.\n<\/p>\n<p>The ageing civic leader said it was not just\u00a0estates\u00a0in\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0town that were named after prominent personalities.\n<\/p>\n<p>He says that even roads such as Canon Awori street in\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0Central Business District (CBD) was named after former Vice President Moody Awori.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanon Awori of the Anglican Church of England (now Anglican Church of Kenya) was revered for planting over 100 churches in Western Kenya. He died of a heart attack in 1971. He was aged 76,\u201d said Malulu.\n<\/p>\n<p>He left behind a legacy through his larger Awori family that has roots in Kenya and Uganda. He hailed from the Samia community.\n<\/p>\n<p>Khasakhala Road was named after Emuhaya MP Eric Edward Khasakhala, who hailed from Ebwali village in Bunyore. Khasakhala, who died in 2000, aged 74, was a Pan Africanist, independence activist and politician.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hassan Were and Shadrack Khalisia, former mayors as well as Muruli, a former senior chief from Shinyalu constituency, have roads named after them in\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0town.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a special way of honouring our heroes and I believe the county governments will carry on the legacy of recognising individuals,&#8221; concludes Malulu.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001436039\/famous-kakamega-estates-named-after-its-most-revered-sons\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Amalemba and Benjamin Amalemba during interview with The Standard at Litambitsa village in Ikolomani on January 29, 2019. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] Kakamega\u00a0Municipality has two\u00a0famous\u00a0estates\u00a0namely Amalemba and Otiende. Most tenants in the two\u00a0estates\u00a0are the County Government of\u00a0Kakamega\u00a0employees, lecturers of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (Mmust), doctors, teachers and business people. \u201cOtiende\u00a0Estate\u00a0was named after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}