Kenyan boy offers to sell his kidney for secondary school fees

Kakamega – A 15-year-old boy who sat for his KCPE
examination last year at Kongoni primary school in
Likuyani Sub County and managed to score 401 marks has
offered to sell his kidney to raise secondary school fees.
Speaking to West FM, Benjamin Wanjala who hails from a
poverty stricken family at Furfural village, Kongoni
location, said he first did KCPE in 2013 together with his
elder sister where he managed to score 372 marks while
his sister got 282 marks.
He received an admission letter from Chebisaas Boys High
School in Uasin Gishu county but his father Bernard
Manyasi wasn’t able to take the two of them to secondary
schools and begged him to allow his sister to join form
one.
Wanjala says he obeyed his father’s decision and opted to
repeat standard eight hoping to score 400 marks and above
so that he could get sponsorship of which he managed to
score 401 but it has become a nightmare for him to secure
admission in secondary school.
The boy who has been selected to join Mang’u High School
in Kiambu county would like to be a surgeon after
completing his education but he says it seems he will not
realize his dream due to lack of school fees.
After his father has tried all means possible to raise school
fees without success, the boy has now offered to sale his
kidney to secure admission in secondary school.
“Because my father is unable to raise my fees, I have at
my tender age offered to sell my kidney, our science
teacher taught us that a person can survive with one
kidney and for me I’m ready to part with one of my kidneys
to realize my dreams,” said the little boy.
His father Bernard Manyasi who lives with his family on a
0.2 acre land survives by baking bricks on the same land
says the burden has weighed heavily on him since he
already have two daughters in form two and three who are
also facing school fees challenges.
He said during the December holiday his son helped him in
making bricks and he has 10,000 bricks which are ready for
sale but he hasn’t got a market.
He adds that his efforts to get help from the ward and CDF
bursary kitties have been in vain.
“I went to my MCA Robert Makhanu but I didn’t get any
assistance, I also visited my MP Dr. Enoch Kibunguchy but
all has been in vain, and more painful when I approached
one of the elected leaders from this sub county he rudely
chased me away from his office warning me not to take my
burden to him,” said a disappointed Manyasi.
Manyasi says his son is disciplined and hardworking and if
he gets a sponsor he will realize his dreams of becoming a
surgeon.
The area sub county education officer David Esemele
Mwandihi has also sent a passionate appeal to well
wishers to help this bright brain so that it doesn’t go to
waste.
“This boy was among the top ten in the sub county and he
really deserve to join a national school and I can see a
bright future in him, I therefore appeal to local leaders and
other well wishers to help him join high school. I tell you he
will be resourceful to the community,” said Mwandihi.
According to Kongoni primary school head teacher Julius
Matere, Wanjawa was among the best candidates the
school has produced saying he was always above average
and top of his class and his classmates had nicknamed
him professor, West FM reported.