[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] In 1952 – 1957 he was detained at Kapenguria together with Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and other fellow Kenyan freedom fighters reminiscent of Chief Koinange Wa Mbiyu (d. 1960)[5][10] by the British colonial government in Kenya, under the so-called emergency rule.

Besides, he endured unadulterated torture, denied legal representation and visitation by his family and confrères; and he bore the arrogation of all his business enterprises, financial, and real-estate property, confiscated as a penal measure by the colonial authorities.

Esau Oriedo went on to be elected to multiple terms as a councilman in the County Council of Kakamega in the nascent post-colonial Kenya, before voluntarily stepping down to pave way for the younger generation, whom he continued to coach and mentor.

He adeptly teamed up with Daniel Asiachi, on a project sanctioned by the American Bible Society and with the guidance of Dr. Gertrude B. Kramer, in the first ever translation of the Bible—New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs—into the Nyole language.

The archetypical recipient of the North Nyanza LNC scholarships was Arthur Okwemba; a cerebrally brilliant young man who went to study medicine at Makerere Medical School.

Moreover, he wanted his children to have adequate self-sustaining means of contented existence; to be actively engaged in the affairs of their country; to be inquisitive; to embrace holistic inclusiveness and altruism; and to be good Christians—to adopt their traditional African heritage in syncretism with the Christian faith.

These bursaries helped attract a plethora of bright students from poor homes to the secular education which soon led to the North Nyanza LNC government schools academically outperforming the parochial counterpart.

[Note 4] The scholarship was mostly focused on higher education opportunities for talented students who could not afford to attend colleges such as Makerere Medical School at Mengo, present-day Uganda.

The archetypical recipient of the North Nyanza LNC scholarships was Arthur Okwemba; a cerebrally brilliant young man who went to study medicine at Makerere Medical School.

[22] Mr. Okwemba is an exemplification of Esau Oriedo's pioneering role in making both early and higher educational opportunity universally accessible for all students without regard to their origin or family societal status.

Esau Khamati Oriedo was a pragmatically progressive and a dynamic political figure; a charismatic and transformational statesman who embraced change as opportunity to attain new frontiers in the sociopolitical and socioeconomic furtherance of the welfare of his native African people.

He understood the fragile dynamics of such a contemporary pan-ethnic nation-state that consisted a collection of traditionally separate societies with customarily divergent cultural-dogmata living under a shared neoteric socioeconomic and political governance system.

As a polyglot lingua franca, he pivoted an en bloc mélange of Kenyan ethnicities in a grassroots edification and mobilization of support for the pan-ethnic African nationalism cause(s).

When Kenya acquired her independence in December 1963, he was elected to several terms as a councilman in the County Council of Kakamega;[3][9] he voluntarily gave up his position — at the start of ‘70's — to the younger generation, whom he continued to mentor.

[1][33][34][35] Esau Khamati Oriedo and Daniel Asiachi made key contributions alongside Dr. Gertrude B. Kramer with the translation of the bible—vis-à-viz, the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs—into Lunyole (Lunyore); the native language of his Bantu Kavirondo people.

[40] Esau Oriedo's legal acumen, political prescience, and multilingualism made him a valuable resource to the early pan-ethnic and grassroots labor movement in colonial Kenya.

He effectively leveraged his knowledge of the British Judicature of Acts to provide legal representation and advocacy to trade unions and its members, and other native African organizations being targeted for persecution by the colonial government as political subversives.

While in detention, Esau Oriedo endured torture and the harshest conditions chastened by the British colonial government in Kenya, under the so-called emergency rule; he was denied legal representation and visitation by his family nor associates.

These bursaries helped attract a plethora of intellectually bright students from poor homes to the secular education which soon led to the North Nyanza LNC government schools academically outperforming the parochial counterpart.

Mr. Okwemba is an exemplification of Esau Oriedo's pioneering role in making both early and higher educational opportunity universally accessible for all students without regard to their origin or family societal status.

Owing to Archdeacon Owen — he and his colleagues —protested the alienation by colonial and imperial authorities of land owned by the native people of Luhya (North Kavirondo) since the changing of fortunes — gold deposits.

He took full advantage of trade unionising to band together with fellow activists so as to achieve common goals to effectively campaign for the socioeconomic and political empowerment of the natives people during colonialism era in Kenya.

[52] His role as an effective trade unionist made him and fellow trade-union members targets of persecution by the colonial government using judicially tools and the state of emergency rule and the general provisions of—of the so-called—seditious speeches and acts.

[51] In 1964 he founded of Kenya Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bunyore Branch (registered on 3 June 1964);[12] a not-for-profit, non-governmental, member based organization chartered with promoting conducive and productive business environment, regulatory advocacy, community stewardship, literate local human resources, raw material and technology, and a creation of commerce and industry infrastructure able to attract sustainable business development to further socioeconomic welfare of all communities in Bunyore.

Mumia had in 1926 been appointed, by the British colonial government, paramount chief of all four traditionally aligned districts of western Kenya; which of course, included the people of Bunyore — Esau Oriedo's Bantu ethnic Luhya group.

An embodiment of his embrace of this duality is his own wedding in 1923 which blended a Christian service at the Church of God Kima mission with a traditional African reception at Ebwali village.

On 12 November 1954 n recognition of the Church of God Anderson, Indiana and her Kima mission recognized Esau Khamati Oriedo (who was in detention at Kapenguria for his role in the freedom movement) and his wife, Evangeline Ohana Olukhanya Oriedo, for their contribution to the Church of God Kima Mission, and their continued proselytizing of Christianity in Bunyore and the rest of the Nyanza region (present-day western Kenya and Nyanza Province in Kenya).

[7] He made effective use of his knowledge of British Judicature of Acts to provide legal representation and advocacy to trade unions and its members, and other native African organisations being targeted for persecution by the colonial government as political subversives.

He led by example and was an inspirational role model to many Kenyans across ethnicities, geopolitical and economic spectra; he provided many, and of course his siblings, with formal educational opportunities to attain their highest possible potential.

Similarly, in 1924 he dispensed funding and land spearhead the founding of Ebwali Primary School; he provided bursaries and other kinds of financial support to help promote the welfare of those in need.