The Trade Unionist "Ochwata",who was engaged in the fight against colonialists in Kenya, through industrial strifes alongside other great trade unionists such as Mboya and Mahan Singh
Ochwata later rose to become secretary general of the wider East African trade Union movement
Ochwata later rose to become secretary general of the wider East African trade Union movement
In 1959 Ochwata operated an office in Kisangani Congo which he used to cordinate the fight against the Belgian domination of the Congolese people.
He was Joined in Kisangani by another Kenyan trade Unionist, Adams Kutayi who had escaped from Kenya after being detained for one month at Shimo la Tewa and marked as a dangerous black man by the British.
During the Congo crisis 1960-1965 Ochwata recruited former mau mau fighters to fight white mercenaries who were being sent to fight in the Congo by major parties of the cold war .
Ochwata died on the 23rd July 1991.
Ochwata died on the 23rd July 1991.
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