Corruption! Corruption! Let’s End Corruption!

After finishing her Kenyan Certificate of Primary Education, she was hopeless, helpless and not knowing where to go and where to start from. She was in a dilemma situation. The KCPE results were aired out and she found herself being the top score girl in her school with 350 marks, which was excellent to her. She was filled with happiness in her heart because of her success in primary level but at same time questions were roaming in her mind on how she would go to school in secondary level. To her this was the biggest challenge she had because mom was jobless and her family members were not in that good living standard that they could manage to take her to secondary school. This really gave her hard time to think of her poor future.

Luckily enough her mom thought of an idea and she told the daughter to take her result slip to a scholarship program, since she had heard about sponsoring pupils with high marks. She saw like the darkest part of her life was chased away by light that she was seeing ahead of her. She with her mom took her documents and they went to certain place where interviews were being contacted. Few minutes later they reached there but people were very many and she wondered when she will at least get that chance to be interviewed. Anyway, patience was the best policy.

“My daughter, it doesn’t really matter the hard situation we are undergoing, as long as you get this chance,” her mother said.

The first time, they were told to go back and come the next morning. They went and in the morning next day they went again but still her hopes were going down each day. Finally she was interviewed and she was told to go home and wait for a call. These words gave a strong and fast heartbeat thinking that maybe that is a strong proof that the chance was not meant for her. They went home and waited for the call but no one called. As she was watching television she found a program and she had a curiosity of knowing what it was. She realized that people had already been selected. She sat down and cried she was not among them. She was very helpless but then crying was not a solution.

She heard people saying that in that institution, they were not taking people with fee problems, but those who had connections with the interviewers and those who paid the interviewer. Poor Christine had no connection with anyone but even though she did not get the scholarship, she still got another scholarship in a school in Nanyuki known as Daraja Academy. Christine is now a student in Form Two, a lady full of information, very determined, a very strong and powerful girl who is going to change the world by fighting corruption especially in this beautiful land, full of tourist attraction sites, but bad with corruption. Yes, this is my moment to rise and shine. Let’s end corruption in Kenya.