MKU awards grade A student full scholarship to study medicine 14 years later
Joy as grade A student who failed to join university for fourteen years offered a scholarship by Mount Kenya University (MKU).
Milly Nafula, who has been stuck in Kitale, Trans Nzoia where she works at a posho mill, has received a fully paid scholarship to pursue a medicine and surgery at the MKU.
Speaking during the MKU 20th graduation ceremony founder and board of directors chairman Professor Simon Gicharu said the scholarship will enable Nafula actualize her dreams.
“I was touched when I saw her story on TV. I asked myself, how can we as Kenyans allow her to stay at home for so many years just because she can’t afford or get a university slot. I would like to inform this congregation that we will give a scholarship to her,” he said.
The scholarship will cover tuition fees for her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery course.
Nafula sat for her KCSE exams at the Manor High School in Kitale in 2007.
She scored a mean grade of A Minus with 71 points.
KUCCPS, the government body, which is mandated with selecting and posting students to universities never picked her up.
Her efforts to get a solution at KUCCPS fell on deaf years until after her plight was highlighted this week in the media.
KUCCPS came out to state that she had been selected to pursue a degree in tourism at Moi University, much to the chagrin of the public.
The former student at Manor House High School also expressed that she still has hopes of receiving an admission at one of the country’s institutions of higher education.
