06/09/2020 ÿú Odera Akango: a file picture of the colonial chief, Odera Akang?o who whipped his subjects for failure to take their children to school . DSC 4091(2) the debris of the colonial cell built by the no nonsense chief at Yala town, Colonial Chief Odera Akango of Gem location is a man most remembered for his love for education. He is remembered for flogging parents who failed to take their children to school. In remembrance.
06/09/2020 ÿú If Odera Akang?o was alive today, several people in Gem constituency and Siaya County at large would now be doing time in lonely cells, nursing injuries after receiving several strokes of the cane. Known for his intolerance to laziness and anybody who disobeyed the law, the colonial chief Akang?o, would have whipped several officials and [?], 17/12/2019 ÿú Some of the most educated Kenyans are from Chief Odera Akango?s Gem area in Siaya Then there was Chief Odera Akang?o who forcibly enrolled his subjects to compulsory primary education from 1915. See Also: Kenya Air Force Commander who married house help dies on his birthday!, The Odera Akang?o cell is a National Monument. This is where the ambitious and far-sighted chief constructed a private police force which was responsible for inspecting farms and to report any attitude of idleness. He constructed a private police cell and an office where he could arrest and keep the law breakers. This was the first ever cell that, 15/04/2015 ÿú Chief Odera Akango, a colonial chief who realized the importance of education and forced the people of Gem to embrace it leading to the current high number of academic giants in the constituency Dr Alphonse John Okidi, Senior Program Specialist, IDRC, 10/04/2017 ÿú The campus was named after legendary colonial paramount chief Odera Akang?o famed for caning his subjects to force them to acquire an education. ?The.
05/07/2017 ÿú A century after his tumultuous career as an administrator came to an ignoble end, Odera Akang?o is best remembered for his passionate embrace of Western-style formal education. Stories are told about the no-nonsense Ruoth caning and even jailing subjects into taking their children to school.
21/07/2021 ÿú Moi University Council has officially handed over Odera Akang?o Campus in Yala town, Siaya County to Maseno University. The handing over ceremony was presided over by the Vice Chancellors of the two institutions, Prof. Isaac Sanga Kosgey (Moi University) and Prof. Julius Omondi Nyabundi (Maseno) respectively.;"