This archive report was first published on 10 November 2019.
On November 7, 2019, the Siaya County Assembly received a petition seeking to rename the devolved unit to Ramogi County. The petitioner, Gwada Ogot, a resident of Ngiya in Alego sub-county, argued that the proposed change has been occasioned by the new and rising morning light which signals the commencement of the prophesied times of fulfillment, knowledge, justice, and abundance.
According to the petition, Ramogi toponym symbolises the morning light, a time of the resurrection and epochal initiation of a higher level and calling. Mr. Ogot prayed that the assembly grant him an opportunity to brief the MCAs on why they should as a priority agenda commence the process to adopt "Ramogi" as a formal toponym and hence "Ramogi County".
The petitioner outlined four specific thematic pillars in his petition: Constitutional rationale, Ethno spiritual rationale, Spiritual intellectual rationale, and Onomastic rationale. In his argument on the Ethno spiritual rationale, Mr. Ogot claimed that Ramogi is a baptismal title and ancestral anthroponym of the Luo, a people who will from now henceforth be known as a light in Luo language "Ler".
Mr. Ogot also drew references from the Holy Bible Book of Isaiah, Luo great light of Nations, and The Constitution of Kenya 2011. He argued that the petition relies on the supremacy of the great light of the holy Bible as the singular rock of universal culture, spiritualism, and knowledge.
