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Girls whose bride price was paid long before KCPE results

After undergoing the excruciating pain of forced circumcision last year, Esther Murguyia and Josephine Kuriain were lucky to go back to school at Olesirwa Primary in Naroosura, Narok County, having also vehemently resisted plans to be married off.

The two, both 14, who were among thousands of students who sat the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination this year scored 249 marks each.

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