World News 21-01-2005 who: 84 year-old `schoolboy` Kimani Maruge what: Is a disruptive influence, parents complain where: Kenya when: This week snippet: Penniless and illiterate, the octogenarian great-grandfather "turned up last year at the Kapkenduiywo Primary School and demanded to be enrolled in its infant class," says The Telegraph`s Nairobi correspondent, Adrian Blomfield. "Cutting off the bottoms of his only trousers and splashing out on a pair of grey, knee-length socks to meet the dress code, Mr Maruge queued with more than 100 six-year-olds to be registered." But parents of his fellow pupils say their children no longer concentrate in class. "They are too busy wondering what he is going to do next," says one. [... more]

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