By MN Reporter
Kanyawanga High School principal Jacob Mbogo has called on well wishers to help a student who reported without fees only any basic necessity, weeks after form ones reported.
“He walked in the school on foot and only carried his results slip, calling letter and his parents identification cards. He had his home clothes and slippers and said he wanted to be allowed to study,” Mbogo said.
He said on August 6, the boy’s father came to the school and requested an extension of his admission to August 13 as the school had no fees or money to buy uniform and other basic necessities.
The school’s annual fee is Sh35,000.
“After August 13 we tried to locate the boy severally and failed before he joined us on foot, the only thing he said is that he wanted to learn,” Mbogo said.
He was allowed to sleep in the school and started learning with his home clothes, a black t-shirt, shorts and slippers.
“The school offered him uniform as we seek those willing to help him,” he said.
Odhiambo said he sold a banana he had planted while a student at Ng’ong’a Primary School to raise Sh100 which he used as fare from Awendo to Rongo town to go to school.
“I woke up at 6am and walked to Awendo town, where I paid to be dropped in Rongo town and walked to school, I just wanted to go to school and read as all my friends in the village had joined form one,” Odhiambo said.
Odhiambo said he scored 337 marks of a possible 500, and said he wished to be a neurosurgeon in the future.
“I got a the calling letter at Kanyawanga School which has been my dream school, for long I decided to walk to school after my parents exhausted all means of paying for me school fees,” Odhiambo said.
He said his parents work as menial workers, “and all avenues of getting fees and payment failed completely. I just want to be in school and study, that is all.”
Odhiambo said he had reached the last hope of either going to school and just decided to walk at home after listening to the radio that education cabinet secretary George Magoha said he wanted to ensure all students go to school.
