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Rowlings Arnold of Kakamega Hill School is carried shoulder high by his teachers and parents who were celebrating his victory for emerging the best student in the country. Arnold scored 453 marks. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

Business in Kakamega town came to a standstill yesterday as teachers, parents and pupils of Kakamega Hill School celebrated producing the top KCPE student.

The private academy's Rawlings Odhiambo Akech, 14, topped this year's exams with 453, a position he tied with Olive Mwea of Nairobi's Riara Group of Schools.