Nandi: Boy who scored 393 KCPE marks fails to join High School due to poverty

By , K24 Digital
On Thu, 12 May, 2022 14:17 | 2 mins read
A photo collage of the bright boy in Nandi and his father. PHOTOS/Isaiah Cheruyiot
A photo collage of the bright boy in Nandi and his father. PHOTOS/Isaiah Cheruyiot

A 16-year-old boy from Kapsaos Village in Aldai Constituency in Nandi who sat for his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams has seen his future blurred following abject poverty in his family which has paralysed his plans of joining form one

Amon Kibiwot did his KCPE examinations at Toretmoi Primary School and scored 393 marks.

"Despite many challenges my parents are going through, I managed to get good marks in KCPE, but I have reported to Secondary School due to lack of school fees, and  I pray to God to open ways for me as He did during my schooling and examinations," Kibiwot said.

The boy, Amon Kibiwot's KCPE result slip. PHOTO/Isaiah Cheruiyot
Amon Kibiwot's KCPE result slip. PHOTO/Isaiah Cheruiyot

Kibiwot has not joined Kabianga Boys High School in Kericho County where he secured admission since his parents Silla Serem and Sally Serem; peasant farmers in Aldai are wallowing in poverty and cannot afford school fees.

"My husband is jobless. I'm also jobless. We don't have any means to take our child to school," Sally narrated to K24 Digital

Kibiwot, who aspires to be a pilot says  the marks he attained were as a result of the good working relationship between the education stakeholders and saying he struggled to achieve the marks despite the fact that his parents were impoverished.

Kibiwot's mother Sally Serem. PHOTO/Isaiah Cheruyiot

"This boy has been working hard. He wants to be a pilot. I can't afford to pay school fees leave alone shopping, I'm a blacksmith who earns peasants with one of my hands partially paralysed," the child's father Silla Serem, said.

Kibiwot's parents have called on the government and well-wishers to chip in and help their son realise his dream of becoming a pilot.

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