A lot is said about Melkazedek Nindo, a former administrator who served in Seme Location, now Seme sub-county in Kisumu County.
Nindo has since gone in history as the most feared chief in this side of the nation, to an extent that his subjects feared doing anything that would anger him, even in his absence.
Ironically, one of his subjects was Anyang’ Nyong’o, then a mere child, a man who would grow to become the county’s most powerful person and who was equally scared of him.
In one of his articles on the Standard dated 2013, Nyongo describes Nindo as ‘law and order in person’ and a man who nobody would dare go against.
‘’When I was a child law and order was something that chiefs walked with, ate with and slept with. We had a chief called Melkazedek Nindo who was law and order in person,’’ he says.
‘’Everybody in Seme Location walked the straight and narrow path for fear of rubbing Nindo the wrong way,’’ adds the county boss who was born in 1945.
This was a time when chiefs, especially in Luo Nyanza, wielded so much power that they had a special unit of police officers attached to them to aid them in ‘maintaining law and order’ in their locations.
The power contained in the Chief’s Act was scrapped in 1997.
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