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Former Sports and Heritage CS Rashid Echesa at a past event. (File, Standard)
When President Uhuru Kenyatta nominated Rashid ‘Achesa’ as Sports and Heritage Secretary, the initial reaction, even within the Mulembe nation, was, “Who is that?”
It was a legitimate question, for the name Achesa does not exist in the Luhya lingua. What they have is ‘Echesa’, meaning one born during the harvest season. How jealous the ‘small’ Luhya sub-tribes were and livid that the son of Wanga had harvested leadership back to the rightful owners!
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