A principal with a big heart, admits girls who lacked a penny for fees

A parent wept uncontrollably in front of her daughters when a school admitted them after they were rejected in many schools due to lack of fees.

Munga Tsuma, 52 had to be helped by a school board chairman to compose himself after his daughters – Maimuna Kwekwe (17) and Idaya Chizi (15) joined sports giants Kaya Tiwi School in Kwale County.”The only option I was now left with was to marry off these girls as young as they are because I could not get money to take them to secondary school,” said Mr Tsuma.Kwekwe and Chizi scored 351 and 349 marks out of 500 marks respectively in last year’s KCPE at Benyoka Primary School in Rabai, Kilifi County.

A principal with a big heart, admits girls who lacked a penny for fees

A parent wept uncontrollably in front of her daughters when a school admitted them after they were rejected in many schools due to lack of fees.

Munga Tsuma, 52 had to be helped by a school board chairman to compose himself after his daughters – Maimuna Kwekwe (17) and Idaya Chizi (15) joined sports giants Kaya Tiwi School in Kwale County.”The only option I was now left with was to marry off these girls as young as they are because I could not get money to take them to secondary school,” said Mr Tsuma.Kwekwe and Chizi scored 351 and 349 marks out of 500 marks respectively in last year’s KCPE at Benyoka Primary School in Rabai, Kilifi County.