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Where Senator Kithure Kindiki overcame grade C

Nicknamed Tharaka B, the school was the first boys’ boarding school in the area Photo: Courtesy

Tharaka Boys High School started as a mixed harambee school in 1969 in Tharaka division. Learners would sleep in the nearby primary school.

In the early 1970s, girls were withdrawn and the school infrastructure expanded by missionaries to accommodate boys only. The late minister for education Dr Taaitta arap Toweett, opened the renovated boarding school.

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