Despair to hope as well wishers pay fees for bright, needy Nyeri boy

Kieni MP Kanini Kega (in the background) leaves a bank where he paid school fees for Dennis Ngatia (foreground) who scored 403 marks but wanted to repeat Standard Eight due to lack of school fees. Ngatia will be admitted to Kagumo High School, a National School in Nyeri. Other well-wishers offered to help educate the boy. PHOTO: JOB WERU/STANDARD.

Lady luck came smiling for a 14-year-old boy from a poor background who sat his Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) last year after well wishers offered to pay his school fees.

Dennis Ngatia Wangu sat KCPE at Kimahuri Primary School in Kieni East, Nyeri County and scored 403 marks, but his hopes of joining Kagumo High School were nearly dashed due to lack of fees.