Nabongo Mumia of Wanga was a very cunning Chief.Before 1902, Jougenya Kager and the Abawanga co-existed peacefully and traded with each other. However trouble started when Nabongo Mumia was appointed as Paramount Chief and placed in charge of almost half of Kavirondo (Nyanza).
Just after his appointment Jougenya Kager and the Wanga started fighting over land. When Charles Hobley (Obilo) and another European administrator called Spencer (Bwana Kikombe) heard about this, they ordered Chief Mumia to call the Kager who lived in the neighbourhood with the Wanga to a meeting so that they could make peace.
Instead of passing the information, Chief Mumia warned the Kager not to attend the meeting because Hobley wanted to kill them. Consequently, JoKager never turned up, but the Abawanga turned up.
Hobley and Spencer were so disappointed in not seeing the Kager. When they demanded to know from the Kager why they didn’t attend, they told them the warning Mumia had given them.
Another meeting was, subsequently, scheduled, this time Hobley and Spencer set out to meet the Jougenya Kager peace party. A very large gathering of Jougenya Kager waited for the two administrators at Manga, a small hill in the Kager area.
Chief Mumia being mischievous as he was sent again his headmen to Manga Hill to advise Jougenya Kager not to meet Hobley because he was going to kill them and the meeting aborted for the second time.
Meanwhile, to set up JoKager against Hobley, the following morning Mumia sent his messengers to inform Hobley that Jougenya Kager had raided his camp at Mumias with the intention of killing him (Hobley). Fortunately they killed his horse in anger and they also dug a small hole underneath his tent leading to his bed.
Jougenya Kager denied this, claiming that it was a trick by Mumia to have them punished by Hobley. Hobley believed Chief Mumia and on that very same day ordered his men to march to the Ugenya Kager areas with guns.
The Kager people, having not faced people with guns, entered into one village thinking that the guns could not break the walls. In the end over sixty Ugenya warriors were killed and scattered.
All the villages were burnt down, animals were seized and many young girls were captured as slaves and taken to the Coast while others were freely married to the Wanga people.
Mr Hobley afterwards sympathised with Jougenya Kager and ordered Chief Mumia to call them back to their villages. But instead, Chief Mumia called the Kakeny, now known as Baholo, from Alego to come and fill up the Kager villages, and Hobley was satisfied. Jougenya Kager, being ignorant, made no protest to the Government because they thought Hobley was the only law and Administrator.
Shortly after the fight above, there was another battle between the Wanga and Jougenya at a place called Anyiko North West of River Nzoia, where there was a village populated by Jougenya Masiro under Chief Ger wuod Okado. Amongst those killed in this battle was a prominent member of Ugenya called Osolo wuod Otekra and his brothers.
Others were: Oloo wuod Ohato, Ojwang wuod Ohano, Mukok wuod Opondo, Sewe wuod Oriya, Ojwang wuod Opata, Otieka wuod Hosea and Onyango wuod Magudha.
In 1915 the Government decided that the only way to achieve peace was by Jougenya Kager having their own Chief to lead them, and for this purpose Omoro K’Omolo was appointed.
But before he could start his work as Chief, a bad report was sent to the DC about his behaviour by Nabongo Mumia who was his senior. The DC summoned Chief Omoro and put him in prison. At the same time the DC asked Omoro to choose one person who could act as Chief as he was serving his sentence.
Chief Omoro suggested Mugenya wuod Agaya who was working as a Policeman at Lureko (Mumias). When Chief Mugenya went to start his work, Mumia also appointed half brother Were Shiundu as Chief and sent him to work with Mugenya on an understanding that it was an order from the Government.
This was not the first time Mumia was imposing his brothers on different clans and tribes. To the people of South Ugenya he appointed his brother Chief Munyendo Shiundu who ruled until 1915, to the Samia he appointed Chief Khadima Shiundu, to the Maragoli, Banyore, Kisa and Marama he appointed Chief Mulama Shiundu and to the Bukusu he appointed Chief Murunga Shiundu.
A lot of disagreement occurred between Chief Mugenya and Chief Were Shiundu, as a result the DC ordered Jougenya Kager and other Ugenya Clans to go down to South Ugenya and the Location was divided into three small areas, Ambira, Mbambra, and Simenya. This was the beginning of Buholo as a Location. Buholo means a borrowed country.
