Mr Shah, the chief executive officer of the Broadway Group of Companies, a bursary-giving family-run enterprise, says he was surprised how the students, nearly all of them from the same school, singularly managed to get their story and pictures published in the Nation. He thinks it’s unfair, in a country where needy students are everywhere, that one school received all attention from ‘Nation’.
On Monday, the Daily Nation banner headline was mainly about students who failed to report to school because they lacked fees. Headlined “Bursary scandal”, the story carried six pictures of such students. The pictures of the six students are repeated and five more added in the inside story (“School out of reach for many in spite of scholarship billions.” Pages 6-7)
After reading the articles, Bimal Shah decided to support seven of the students. Mr Shah is the chief executive officer of the Broadway Group of Companies, a bursary-giving family-run enterprise. Based in Thika, it owns one of the oldest bakeries in Kenya, Broadway.
