Needy student who topped in KCPE does it again in KCSE exams

Kakamega High School Principal Gerald Orina (right) congratulates top student Kombo Njirimani Silas who scored an A of 83 points. [Mumo Munuve, Standard]

There was uncertainty about the transition to secondary school after Silas Njirimani Kombo scored 407 marks in the 2016 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examination.

He had emerged top in his village school. But lying bare was his family's poverty. His parents, peasant farmers, could not afford the tuition fee required to enroll him at Kakamega School.