Muhoroni MP awards scholarship to 64 pupils to join National schools

 

Muhoroni MP James Onyango K'Oyoo congratulates one of the 64 KCPE Candidates who have been awarded full- four year scholarship to join National schools across the country-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo

May 4, 2022

Muhoroni MP awards scholarship to 64 pupils to join National schools

A total of 64 pupils who sat their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education 2021 in various public primary schools in Muhoroni constituency have been awarded a four-year full scholarship for their secondary education.

Muhoroni Member of Parliament James Onyango K’Oyoo says this is the ninth edition of KCPE candidates who have been awarded full scholarship to join national schools in various parts of the country.

Addressing the residents of Muhoroni constituency during the award ceremony for the scholarship within National Government Constituency Development Fund offices, K’Oyoo said he initiated the program through CDF to award bright but needy students whose parents could not afford fund to educate them in National schools.

K’Oyoo says the programs has since paid off after such students have excelled and joined universities to study courses like engineering, Medicine, Law, Journalism among others hence making the area to have more professionals after initiating the program in 2014.

“We initiated this program to help in ensure that in future we the residents of Muhoroni constituency will have more educated professionals from home where their parents could not afford taking them to national schools,” he says.

He says already some of the first batch of the students who were awarded the scholarship in the year 2014 are pursuing Master’s degree in various fields.

The Muhoroni Member of Parliament says the program has been sponsoring children whose parents cannot purely afford school fees for National schools but not the ones from rich families as earlier been rumored.

“Some people have been going round the constituency while peddling lies that we have been sponsoring children from rich families and now you have confirmed that it is not true because we have paraded the beneficiaries here in a broad day light and you have seen them,” he adds.

He has urged the students to go and work smart while in their four-year secondary education so as to attain good grades which will enable them proceed to institutions of higher learning to study technical courses.

“I believe you have good brains and if you put them to good use to study well then you must excel in your life,” he further says

Parents whose children have benefitted from the program have thanked their Member of Parliament for such an initiative while asking for God to protect their MP.

“We are sincerely praying for you so that God may continue protecting you to serve the residents of Muhoroni area as their Member of Parliament because the kind of development you have been doing here have been marvelous indeed,” they say