- Kakamega senator Boni Khalwale celebrated his daughter Melissa Khamwenyi’s success in the 2025 KCSE results released on January 9
- Melissa, who sat her exams at St Brigid’s High School-Kiminini, earned a mean grade of B‑minus, securing university entry
- Khalwale praised the school, his family, and God for being behind his child’s academic feat
Kai Eli, a journalist at TUKO.co.ke, brings more than three years of experience covering politics and current affairs in Kenya.
Kakamega senator Boni Khalwale has been impressed by the performance of his child in the 2025 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination.
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The results were officially released by Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba on Friday, January 9.
According to the Ministry of Education, 270,750 candidates secured direct university admission by attaining grades of C+ and above.
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How Khalwale celebrated his daughter Khamwenyi
Khalwale’s daughter, Melissa Khamwenyi, featured among the top achievers.
Having written her examination at St Brigid’s High School-Kiminini, Melissa scored a mean grade of B- (minus).
The senator celebrated the feat, appreciating the school’s contribution to his child’s academic success.
“As my daughter, Melissa Khamwenyi Khalwale, shines all the way to the university, I want to thank the St Brigid High School-Kiminini fraternity and my family for the support they bestowed on Liza in her studies. And above all I thank God for the gift of my little girl,” Khalwale wrote on X.
Khamwenyi is among many of Khalwale’s children to have got prominence thanks to their father’s penchant for sharing their academic feats.
In 2024, he celebrated the results of his other daughter, Gift Atubukha, who excelled in the 2023 KCSE examination.
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How Gift Atubukha excelled in 2023 KCSE examination
Atubukha scored a mean grade of B+ (plus) at St Brigid’s High School-Kiminini.
Khalwale credited Atubukha’s achievement to the support of the girl’s family and the teachers at the school.
Predictably, Khalwale posted on X thanking his family, the St Brigid’s High School-Kiminini community and God for guiding and supporting his “little Tubu” to that milestone.
In 2022, Khalwale was on X again to celebrate another feat after another set of his children excelled in the 2021 KCSE.
He praised his daughter, Flavia Shimuli, and son, Stephen Kapten, for their strong performances, noting that both cleared the minimum university entry threshold.
Shimuli, who attended Alliance Girls High School, scored 75 aggregate points, an A-, while her brother Kapten, of Kakamega Boys High School, posted 47 aggregate points, a C+.
True to form, Khalwale thanked God and the teaching and non‑teaching staff of both schools for their support.
How was KCSE 2025 performance?
The Ministry of Education reported that A grades in 2025 improved on 2024’s tally of 1,693 As.
A total of 1,932 candidates scored a mean grade of A.
The number of candidates qualifying for direct university entry (C+ and above) rose to 270,750, up from 246,391 the previous year.
Overall, those scoring C- and above increased to 507,131 from 476,889, while B+ and above climbed to 634,082 from 605,774.
National schools led in A grades with 1,526, followed by extra-county schools (197) and private schools (185).
In the C+ and above category, sub-county schools outperformed county schools, recording 72,699 candidates versus 6,600.
Source: TUKO.co.ke
