Chewoyet High School: Where “Kapenguria Six” trial was conducted.

• Chewoyet High School is a boy’s boarding national secondary school found in Kapenguria, West Pokot county.
• It’s one of the oldest secondary school’s that were established in the precolonial period in the now North Rift regional.
• The school, sitting on 295 acres was earlier known as the Rift Valley Junior Secondary School. It served as the first an agricultural college in the 1940’s.

In the late 1950’s selected students from across the country converged at the current Kitale Post Office. Here, a lorry waited for a 40-kilometre rough ride, along the Kitale-Kapenguria Road, to the school that later became famous as the colonial court where the Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and the Kapenguria Six were tried on April 8, 1953.
The old courtroom buildings have been converted into a staff room, an administration block and a classroom for Form Three students.

In academics, the school has reigned for years now, excelling in KCSE national exams each academic year. In the recent 2021 results, the school posed a mean grade of 7.06 (C+) with a good number of candidates who sat for KCSE sealing direct entry to university. The school was ranked position 2 in West Pokot county after Tartar Girls High School.

The boys at the institution engage in rivalry banter with their rivals Kapenguria Boys and Ortum High School mostly during outings. This is said to come as a result of beautiful girls from Tartar Girls.

Notable alumni of the school include; former Vice President the late Michael Kijana Wamalwa, the first school captain and his brother, Hon Eugene Wamalwa, Cabinet Secretary of Defense; former Chief of the General Staff Daudi Tonje, former Nairobi Town Clerk John Gakuo, Education PS Dr Bellio Kipsang and the late Rift Valley PC Ishmail Chelang’a.

Others who clad white shirts, green blazers and pullovers and cream trousers and recited the school motto “Virtue And Honesty” are; Team Kenya middle distance athletes Amos Serem, Jacob Krop and Zablon Ekwen; former Sigor MP Wilson Litole, former Prison Commissioners Abraham Kamakil and Edward Lopokoit, Kitale ACK Bishop Stephen Kewasis, Milimani courts Senior Principal Magistrate Linus Limatiang and Atinga John Ernest Oluoch, associate professor, orthopaedic and traumatology, University of Nairobi-School of Medicine.