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A 63-year-old Kenyan man, Kazungu Kateke has enrolled at a primary school for the first time in May 2016 after he was denied a seat on the managing committee of a school he founded.
Shocking, right?
He is now enrolled in Ganze Primary in Class three and is also set to sit his KCPE examinations this year;
According to African Leadership UK website, he was denied the opportunity after the government took over his institution and denied him the chance because he was illiterate.
“I founded Kimbule Primary School in Ganze in 2001. It was built on community land but it has since been taken over by the government. Being left out of the committee of the school hurt me to the core,” explained Kateke.
He felt that the people of Ganze are an ungrateful lot for fighting him when all he did was begin community projects for them.
He said when he first went to school in May this year, the pupils were afraid of him. “None of them wanted to associate with me. But now we are doing fine,” he said.
One of his seven children completed secondary school in 2006. Three others are in secondary school. Another son did not go to school.
He said that he was suffering in silence because he could not read messages from his cell phone and even if someone had sent him some money, he could not know what had been sent.
“It was very tough. I was eager to get education because I was missing something in my life. Early this year, I told my wife that time was up for me to return to school. She accepted and in May I came here. My dream is to be a teacher,” he said.
