By BILLY MUIRURI Posted Thursday, June 3 2010 at 13:43
When the school leaver applied to study nursing at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan, she was so naïve that she did not even know there was a fierce war in neighbouring Afghanistan.
It was in 1997 and she had stayed without going to college for two years because “a bribe was needed at every college she wanted to join”. The problem was that her father, a secondary school principal, could never give anyone a bribe.
“He had vowed never offer a bribe for anyone to be in a college where one was qualified to join. He was seriously against the vice,” says Oigo.
She had scored a C (Plus) in her Kenya Secondary School Education (KCSE) at Kereri Girls High School, in Kisii in 1994 and would have been eligible to join any nursing college in the country for a diploma course.
When the opportunity came up in Pakistan through the Aga Khan Education Services, nothing could stop the girl from travelling there.
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