However, the colonial government in the 1930s passed an ordinance barring foreigners from carrying out retail trade in fear of complete alienation of the indigenous population and thereby causing a possible uprising.
This has never caused any rift, as the relationship between the two sub-ethnic groups has historically been smooth, with both tribes claiming to have originated from Bar-el-Gazel in southern Sudan as the "Luo."
G-nuts, beans, simsim and peas, which are produced in abundance by the people of the sub-county, were the main targets of the rebels from the 1980s until the Northern Peace talks halted the war in 2007.
However, the world bank liberalisation policy implemented in the 1990s by the new regime of president Yoweri Museveni led to the collapse of this organised commerce.
Rather, there is total concentration on food crops which are mainly for home use with negligible surplus sold to local businessmen for onward transportation and sale to Kampala, Uganda's capital city, where some basic profit is made.