KCSE candidate who emerged top in the 2019 exam, Tony Wabuko, on Tuesday, December 31, sent a new year message to President Uhuru Kenyatta with a special appeal.
Speaking to Citizen TV, Wabuko revealed that he was disheartened by a massive number of candidates that had failed the exams.
He further urged the state to strengthen Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) centres to ensure that all learners secure their futures.
"A system in which 60 per cent of the students don't go to university, I think it is not the best. A system that embraces all the students including their skills and talents should be embraced. I recommend CBC.
"The government should strengthen TVET and the polytechnics because they have to accommodate the 60 per cent that has not made it to university," he explained
During the interview, the candidate disclosed that he made a lot of sacrifices and would wake up early and retire to bed much later. He wishes to pursue a career in the medical field.
"Due to the emerging number of opportunities from the results, I desire to go outside the country because of the better facilities and pursue medicine there.
"I would wake up as early as 3:00 a.m. and sleep as late as 12:00 a.m. I was a man of my own world, I walked alone. I did not follow the groups," he continued.
Wabuko, who was a student at Kapsabet Boys High School, emerged top in the exams with a score of 87.159.
He also did well in the KCPE exams that he sat in 2015 scoring 433 marks in KCPE at St Aquinas Primary School in Njoro, Nakuru County.
