The best performing student in the first South Sudan Secondary School Certificate examinations has not hope of joining university studies due to lack of support.
19 year old Lotara Moses, who sat his certificate examinations at Magwi Secondary School, leads a family of six siblings and his mother, Emmanuel Radio reported.Lotara lost his father at an early age and death also robbed him of an uncle who helped him.
The young lad laid bricks, traded on agricultural produce and sold some of the family crops in the village to pay his school fees.
Lotara says he does not have any relative to support his further education in a university or other institution.
He added that he has never visited Juba as he was taken into exile at a young age and spent most of his time in Madi Okolo Refugee Camp in the Ugandan district of Arua.
Eastern Equatoria education minister Michael Lopuke Lotyam said his government will not abandon such bright brains to perish.
However, the minister did not make any promise to bail Lotara out of his misfortunes and grant him a scholarship to join the university.