Jomo Kenyatta High School Jomo Kenyatta High School Jomo Kenyatta High School is located in Bahati Division, Nakuru County in Kenya. From the time of inception in the 1970s, it has been a Mixed Boarding School until 2016 when it separated to a boys and girls boarding school. Initially, this school was known as Ngwataniro Secondary School, but later renamed after the first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta. It was pioneered by, among others, the late Kihika Kimani. It is located facing the Menengai Crater on the rise towards the Kenyan Eastern Highlands, in the Great Rift Valley. Near a small center known as
Jomo Kenyatta insisted that it was necessary; in a March 1961 speech, he described Kenyatta an "African leader to darkness and death" and stated that if he were released, violence would erupt. This indefinite detention was widely interpreted internationally as a reflection of the cruelties of British imperialism. Calls for his release came from the Chinese government, India's Nehru, and Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere. Ghana's President Nkrumah personally raised the issue with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and other UK officials, with the Ghanaian government offering Kenyatta asylum in the event of his release. Resolutions calling for his release were produced