Nairobi governor Mike Sonko at a past event. He has awarded bursaries to all public primary schools in Nairobi. [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]
The Nairobi county government will be sponsoring 612 students who had good performance in last year's KCPE exam.
Revealing the development on Friday, Governor Mike Sonko said that the top three students from each of the county's 204 public primary schools will receive a figure from the kitty as they join for one next Tuesday.
"This is in line with our agenda of supporting education of the bright needy students from Nairobi City County," he said.
The governor added that he has already instructed officials to release all the bursary allocation forms to all the public primary schools.
He said that all the MCAs will undertake a similar programme in the second phase of the project later this month.
"We decided to do this as we wait for the free secondary education program by the national government," Sonko said.