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    Kapenguria is a town in Kenya. It is the capital and largest urban center of West Pokot County. The town lies north east of Kitale on the A1 road along...
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  • The Kapenguria Six – Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, and Achieng' Oneko – were six leading Kenyan nationalists who...
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  • Kapenguria Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of four constituencies of West Pokot County. The constituency was established...
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  • The Kapenguria Museum is a museum located in Kapenguria, Kenya. The museum is located inside the prison where prominent leaders of the Kenyan independence...
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    West Pokot County is a county in Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kapenguria. The county covers an area of approximately 9,169.4 square kilometers...
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    Homa Bay Isiolo Iten Kabarnet Kajiado Kakamega Kapsabet Kangundo - Tala Kapenguria Karuri Kericho Kerugoya Kiambu Kibwezi Kikuyu Kilifi Kisii Kisumu Kitale...
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  • and a Member of Parliament for Pokot West, which was later changed to Kapenguria Constituency in West Pokot County. He served from 1988 when the constituency...
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  • was a Kenyan nationalist and freedom-fighter. He was a member of the Kapenguria Six, along with Bildad Kaggia, Jomo Kenyatta, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, and...
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  • October 1952 when he was one of the lawyers who unsuccessfully defended the Kapenguria Six, a group of Kenyan political figures accused of Mau Mau links (Jomo...
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  • newspaper called Uhuru. It is his article questioning the detention of the Kapenguria Six that earned him detention too in Lamu alongside John Keen. He got...
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    Mau Mau leaders in Operation Jock Scott and subjecting six of them (the Kapenguria Six) to a show trial; the second stage began in earnest in 1954, when...
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  • and independence activist who was detained and tortured 1952 – 1957 at Kapenguria together Koinange wa Mbiyu (d.1960), Jomo Kenyatta, and others for his...
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  • The Pokot South Constituency borders Sigor Constituency to the East, Kapenguria Constituency to the North and West, and Elgeyo-Marakwet County to the...
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  • settlement in Kenya's West Pokot County. The settlement lies on the Kitale–Kapenguria–Lodwar Road (A-1), approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi), northeast of Kitale...
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  • malaria, the capital was moved upland to the south to Kapenguria, where it remained. "Kapenguria". Survey of Kenya 1973. Kenya Government. 1973. Retrieved...
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    District (Lodwar) Uasin Gishu District (Eldoret) West Pokot District (Kapenguria) Western Region: Bungoma District (Bungoma) Busia District (Busia) Kakamega...
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    arrested by the British colonial government in Kapenguria in 1952. Other members of the group, known as "Kapenguria Six" were Jomo Kenyatta, Paul Ngei, Bildad...
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    support but animosity from white settlers. In 1952, he was among the Kapenguria Six arrested and charged with masterminding the anti-colonial Mau Mau...
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  • administrative district in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Kapenguria. Before the transfer of portions of Uganda to British East Africa in 1902...
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    the region in Kapenguria, a high-mountain town in north-west Kenya. The 2006 Peace Marathon was held on 18 November 2006, in Kapenguria, Kenya. Two thousand...
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    well. Most notably, Ramogi Achieng Oneko, a KAU leader and one of the Kapenguria six. Barack Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was involved in...
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  • as Kenyatta Day, which was celebrated to commemorate the detention in Kapenguria of freedom fighters Achieng' Oneko, Bildad Kaggia, Fred Kubai, Jomo Kenyatta...
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  • Fred Kubai (1917–June 1, 1996) was one of the Kapenguria Six, members of the Kenya African Union arrested in 1952, tried and imprisoned. He was a Kikuyu...
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  • Garissa Gede Gem Hola Homa Bay Isiolo Kitui Kibwezi Kajiado Kakamega Kakuma Kapenguria Kericho Keroka Kiambu Kilifi Kisii Kisumu Kitale Lamu Langata Litein Lodwar...
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    Kapchorwa Upper belt (Kwoti, Kapenguria)...
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    Kapchorwa Upper belt (Kwoti, Kapenguria)...
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    Population (2009): 512,690 Current number of seats: 4 Constituencies: 129. Kapenguria, 130. Sigor, 131. Kacheliba, 132. Pokot South. Population (2009): 223...
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    Valley 71,597.8 855,399 Lodwar 24 West Pokot Rift Valley 8,418.2 512,690 Kapenguria 25 Samburu Rift Valley 20,182.5 223,947 Maralal 26 Trans Nzoia Rift Valley...
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    504,976 Lodwar TRK 24 West Pokot Rift Valley 8,418.2 512,690 621,241 Kapenguria WPK 25 Samburu Rift Valley 20,182.5 223,947 310,327 Maralal SBR 26 Trans-Nzoia...
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    Maili Saba means "seven miles" in Swahili. It is located along Kitale-Kapenguria road. Situated at the foot of Mt. Elgon, some 17 kilometers North Western...
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