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Optimism high as seven inmates, private students sit exam

By MURIMI MWANGI and BONIFACE GIKANDI

Seven inmates at King’ong’o Maximum Prison in Nyeri are among the 449,246 candidates sitting KCSE exams. The inmates sat their first paper at 9am in a classroom constructed within the prison premises, and exuded confidence they would finally triumph.

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