More than 120 students in Kikuyu have benefited from the Kikuyu Constituency Education (KICE) foundation award of term two school fees scholarship.
The students will be awarded full school fees for the term two classes, which will kick off early next month, and area MP Ichungwa Kimani says he is optimistic in changing academic excellence of the students in Kikuyu.
The MP, who was speaking on Saturday in Kikuyu township ward during the mentoring session and scholarship award meeting, expressed his concerns with the high number of school dropouts in Kiambu in general, urging parents to be responsible of their sons and daughters.
He said that the needy bright students in the constituency should be given a chance to study, and urged residents to help fish them out from the community instead of letting them languish in poverty, which will result to early marriages and distortion of vision 2030.
The legislator highly condemned the early marriages in the area, with girls as young as 16 years of age reportedly being married off to old men in the community, terming it as a barbaric act from the 19th century.
He further fired a warning to area chiefs and community leaders to watch out such incidences, and urged residents to report such cases to the authority to be dealt with accordingly.
Ichungwa however expressed his gratitude to the KICE Board for their consistent support in making the dream of Kikuyu students come true, urging the beneficiaries to embrace education fully.
He said that if they perform well in the second term, they are likely to be considered again in the next scholarship of term three of 2015.