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Owalo offers scholarship to needy student

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ICT Cabinet Secretary Eliud Owalo and David Odhiambo Muga at Maseno School. Right, Muga's viral photo pleading for help. [Carol Radull/X]

David Odhiambo Muga,14, who took to social media to appeal for help from well-wishers to raise school fees has had his prayers answered.

The student from East Asembo village in Rarieda constituency, Siaya county scored 399 marks in last year's Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination and got admission to Maseno School.

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