When the Late Prof.George Magoha released the KCSE results and announced the best students on April 23, 2022, Karwitha Clinton Mutwiri from Angaine Day Secondary School in Meru was read as the third top student nationally in subcounty schools.
The news brought tears to the eyes of Lucy Karwitha, a single mother struggling to educate her son. It also gave her hope that now that her son’s name has appeared on television and in newspapers, she will not have to scrounge for a university education.
Clinton, who was invited to join Kabarak University to pursue a degree in clinical medicine, was unable to afford Ksh.110,00 per semester, so he transferred to a nearby, less expensive university in Meru.
To make matters worse, Clinton missed out on university funding the last year.
After more than six rejections from other universities in Meru, he was able to obtain a spot at Kenya Methodist University (KEMU).
Clinton was delayed due to a lack of fees, so he was forced to wait another year at home before starting his degree classes.
Clinton now walks with his Mother towards KEMU University, where Citizen.Digital caught up with him. He carries a small bag containing only his results slip and other documents.
His mother, Karwitha, has no money, but they walked with the hope that her son’s big name would persuade the university to admit him even as he awaited university funding.
Her earnings from cleaning people’s clothes are used to pay for her firstborn son, who is enrolled in a technical course at Karumo TTI.
They walk out of the University gate a few minutes later, full of pain, disappointment, and hopelessness.
The KEMU University has refused to admit her son until she can raise 40% of the semester’s university fee of Ksh.84,500. They had nothing, so they walked home, unsure of where they would get the money.
In an interview outside the university, the top student and his mother say they hoped the university would admit them while they wait for government funding.
Clinton’s expresses her hope that her son will fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor, which was dashed many years ago by her parents’ inability to educate a girl child.
Her cry is for President William Ruto to take over the plight of her son and turn her dream into a reality.
Clinton even as hopeless as it looks on this day as he seats outside the University watching as other students get enrolled, hopes one day He will Become a Doctor, Make his Mother Proud.
