- Mogotio residents had formed a WhatsApp group meant to raise funds for Idriss Saidi Lutta, a bright young boy who scored 401 marks in the 2019 KCPE exams

- The residents said Atheists in Kenya president Harrison Mumia was added without their knowledge

- Noah Chepkech, one of the members said they would refund the society's contribution as it had ulterior motives

- Lilian Ayabei, they boy's mother had thanked God for the good gesture but upon being informed of the well-wisher's activities, she noted the intent was all that matters not the source

Residents of Mogotio sub-county in Baringo have rejected school fees aid for a needy student from the Atheists in Kenya society.

The residents had formed a WhatsApp group meant to raise funds for Idriss Saidi Lutta, a bright young boy who scored 401 marks in the 2019 KCPE exams at Emining Primary School.

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Baringo residents rejected school fees aid from the Atheists In Kenya president Harrison Mumia. Photo: Harrison Mumia.

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According to a report by Nairobi News on Friday, January 17, one of the members of the group Noah Chepkech said they ejected the society’s president Harrison Mumia from the group and promised to refund his contribution claiming he had ulterior motives.

“We formed a WhatsApp group with the sole purpose of assisting this bright, needy pupil who had not reported to school due to lack of fees. We managed to raise more than KSh52, 000 which we sent to the family.We were later surprised to learn through the media an organisation, atheists had also assisted the boy,” said Chepkech.

Idriss Lutta has been admitted at Maranda High School courtesy of Atheists in Kenya Society. Mogotio residents said they will refund the organisation's contribution.

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Chepkech said Mumia had been added to their group without their knowledge.

"We later came to know that Mumia, the president to the organisation had been in the WhatsApp group and we had not been informed earlier who he was. He was also not contributing to any of our conversation only to go and form a parallel contribution for the pupil. If he was of good intentions why did he not contribute in the group we were together yet he was a member?," He posed.

A file photo of Maranda School. Photo: Maranda High School.

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Lutta has been admitted at Maranda High School after the residents said the atheists who raised KSh 38,000 sent contributions to a teacher in the school secretly after forming a parallel WhatsApp group.

Mumia confirmed he had sent KSh 27,000 for term one fees and additional KSh 8,000 for shopping.

“We’re not ready to hand over our son to the devil. That organisation had ill intentions because their president was in our group yet he was not contributing to any conversation only to learn through the media that the same guy had assisted the needy pupil through his organisation for our son," Chepkech added.

Another Mogotio resident Amkich Karanja also raised concerns their son may be brainwashed due to the society's generosity.

“We also don’t know the intentions of the organisation. May be they want to brainwash or recruit him into their beliefs and this may have a big impact on his religious beliefs. We fear these people had a vested interests,” he said.

Idriss' mother Lilian Ayabei had thanked God for the good gesture but upon being informed of the well-wisher's activities, she noted the intent was all that matters not the source.

"I am grateful someone has offered to help. I was worried my son's education was coming to an end because I could not afford to pay school fees but now I am grateful to God. As long as they are not devil worshipers, we are grateful they have offered to help us and we accept. The intent is all that matters," she told The Standard.

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