The Kenyan African Workers Congress was a short-lived trade union, formed by a faction of Kenyan trade unionists, with leftist leanings, to rival the Pro-West Kenya Federation of Labour, by Ochola Ogaye Mak'Anyengo and Dennis Akumu COTU, History of COTU https://cotu-kenya.org/history-of-cotuk/. The animosity between the KAWC and the KFL led to then-president Jomo Kenyatta, commissioning an inter-ministerial committee, headed by the Minister for Labour and Social ServicesEliud Ngala Mwendwa. This committee recommended the dissolution of the two unions and their merger into a single union led by KFL's Clement Lubembe and deputized by KAWC's Dennis Akumu On the trail of COTU and trade unionism in Kenya https://nairobibusinessmonthly.com/on-the-trail-of-cotu-and-trade-unionism-in-kenya/.
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