Sekerr Range, also known as Mount Mtelo, is the highest point in West Pokot at 3,336 ms and the 5th highest mountain range in Kenya following Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon, Aberdare and the Cherangani Hills. The expansive Cherangani Hills and its associated sub-tropical forests are one of the magnificent heritages of this region. Pokot." Do not touch your face before washing your hands, Roads, Public Works, Transport and Infrastructure, Lands, Housing, Physical Planning and Urban Development, Youth, Sports, Tourism, Gender and Social Services, Trade, Industrialization, Investment and Cooperative Development, Pastoral Economy, Agriculture and Irrigation, County Receives Vaccine Refrigerators to Boost Vaccination, overnor Lonyangapuo Marks Three Years in Office. "The Threatened Ways of Kenya's Pokot Sekerr Range is about 5 kms from Marich Pass Field Centre along A1 Kitale-Kainuk-Lodwar Road, and both these hillocks can be attempted from the comfort of this restful base. The more ardent explorer from Mount Koh may wish to continue their hiking expedition at the Sekerr Range, which would round up a perfect hiking tour of West Pokot. From Ortum, the road begins to loop and bend on a rocky cleft carved where the Muruny River emerges from the Cheranganis, simply known as Marich Pass. If, instead of doubling back into Kapenguria from Chewoyet High School, one swings west through Sakas-Kacheliba Road, they will find themselves, after 11 kms, at a miniature paradise. Halfway through the nineteenth century, they seem to have expanded their territory rapidly into the lowlands of the Kenyan Rift Valley, mainly at the expense of the Laikipia Maasai people. Amsterdam. 161:120-140. Nandi and Other Kalenjin Peoples. This is the hiring arm of the County Government  Kacheliba Constituency, which is roughly demarcated as the area north of River Suam was formerly known as Karasuk, up until independence in 1963. Ph.D. This is consisted of 170 km2 under food crops and 50 km2 under cash crop tillage. The overall landscape is calmly photogenic. The digital divide disadvantages rural learners and those in informal settlements - now they'll get printed materials to help them study. Based on areal and cultural differences, the Pokot people can be divided into two groups (Rottland 1982): the Hill Pökot and the Plains Pokot . West Pokot County is a county of Kenya.Its capital and largest town is Kapenguria.The county covers an area of approximately 9,169.4 square kilometers and stretches a distance of 132 kilometers from North to South. Although all the Kapenguria Six have all passed on their legacies are perpetuated at Kapenguria. At Kainuk-Turkwel Junction, just 15 kms from Marich Pass Center, the road to the left leads to Nasolot and the other proceeds to Kainuk. From Nasolot Hill one can catch fine views of Sekerr Range, to the south. Here a man lives with his wives, each having their own hut. Values." The wide and yawning gap of the Turkwel Escarpment stretching about 10 kms, in these eerie silent backwoods, is moving almost to the blink of fear. They speak Pökoot, language of the Southern Nilotic language family which is close to the Marakwet, Nandi, Tuken and other members of the Kalanjen grouping. Shaming Party among the Pokot of East Africa." The Plains Pokot live in the dry and infertile plains, herding cows, goats and sheep.