Oldest pupil leaves school

An 88 year old Kenyan man who was the world's oldest school pupil was
forced to abandon his studies when he was moved to a home for the aged,
teachers and aid workers said on Friday. Kimani Nganga Maruge became a
celebrity when he joined a school in the western Kenyan town of Eldoret
at the age of 84, earning him a Guinness book of records entry as the
oldest man ever to start primary school. A former Mau-Mau who fought
British settlers in the 1950s, the elderly Kenyan had already seen his
schooling disrupted earlier this year when he was displaced with
hundreds of thousands of others by post-electoral violence

The school's head teacher said Nganga Maruge now in grade five, never missed school before and his failure to show up for class on Thursday prompted the staff to look for him. Teaching staff expressed their disappointment at Nganga's departure and charged that the decision was hastily taken. They said he is an international figure who is very keen with his studies and doubt if he can accept his studies to be interrupted..