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Kisumu boy who scored A in KCSE now working in a posho mill with no pay

Saul Henry Obwanda, a former student of Nairobi School at his place of work in Kisumu. The boy got A plain but because of lack of school fees has not been able to join Kenyatta University for the fourth consecutive year now and works at his aunt’s posho mill. [PHOTO: DENISH OCHIENG/ STANDARD]

KENYA: When Saul Obwanda received his Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) results in February 2013, he was an elated boy seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

He had scored A plain of 82 points from the Nairobi School, and having been orphaned about a decade earlier, he had known that only education would open his way to success.

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