By Fredrick Odiero
John Moses Ominde, a visually impaired candidate from Maranda high school, who emerged among the best performers in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education has finally joined Kenyatta University where he will study law.
The 18 year old beat all odds to score A- (minus) of 78 points and joined the university’s Parklands campus.
Out of the 400 candidates who sat for the exams at the institution, he was the only candidate with special needs. He was also among the top fourteen students countrywide with special needs.
“It was the work of God and I give Him all the glory. I also attribute my success to the support I received from my parents and teachers,” he said.
John revealed that he aspires to study law at the prestigious Harvard University in the United Kingdom and that he chose to study law in order to rescue the downtrodden in society.
His father Samuel Ominde revealed that John scored 405 marks in KCPE at Golden Elites in Kisumu.
‘My son started having problems while in lower primary school after receiving a wrong diagnosis for Malaria. A medic prescribed a quinine treatment for seven days instead of the requisite three days” he said.
He added that he had consulted many specialists and consultants in a bid to restore his son’s eye sight but his efforts were in vain.
” I had also initially applied for John to be admitted at Nakuru High school since the institution has facilities for special needs children but my efforts did not bear fruits.” he said.
He further added that his son had to learn through hardships at Maranda since the school lacked special teachers and facilities for the same and that he was glad that John managed to cruise through after only six months of braille training.
