The future of one of the best 2016 Primary Leaving Examination pupils in Uganda is uncertain as he prepares and will resort to joining a poor Universal Secondary Education school.
Kanungu District’s Ahumuza Nestroy who scored 4 aggregates at the rural Ntungamo PS in Butogota Town Council is not yet sure if his parents who have been struggling to see him through a UPE school, will make it to a more strategic school commensurate with his performance.
His father is a private in the Ugandan army, the least paid soldiers with a salary of Shs310,000 while the mother is a struggling peasant in the villages of Kanungu.
When TheUgandan’s Patson Baraire visited their humble home in Butogota on Thursday evening, Ahumuza’s mother recounted she had struggled to pay for his lunch and scholastic needs at the local school.
“I only used to hear pupils getting such marks in the city, and some would get bursaries much as they hailed from rich families, but here I am disadvantaged and been struggling to see my son through primary school, ” she said.
Kanungu District’s education department does not offer secondary school scholarships to needy but bright students.
By Patson Baraire
