Khaem
VIP
Somali-Orma agreement was conceived in 1919. The agreement stated that Oromo living on the left/East bank of the Tana in subservience to their Somali conquerors could choose either to accept a formal position as serfs or to move across the Tana to join free Oromo kinsmen, previously resettled by the British. Those who chose to move, however, had to forfeit half their livestock to their Somali masters as a condition of gaining their freedom. As IM Lewis says, "Under these conditions, it is perhaps not surprising that few of the Warfay Galla moved"

