Confusion as why Milly Wafula, who scored A-, yet to join university 14yrs after KCSE

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Fourteen years later and still waiting. That is the story of Milly Wafula from Kitale. She sat her Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams in 2007 and posted impressive results. However, when the defunct Joint Admissions Board (JAB) released the letters of th...
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