Students’ drug and sex orgies point to social rot

Students’ drug and sex orgies point to social rot

By MUSYOKA NGUI

As fate would have it, the five weeks of teachers’ strike saw 550 students culminate their truancy in an Eldoret bar to “vent” their boredom and frustration. The police arrested the pupils and seized drugs. That minors liberally imbibe alcohol, bhang and miraa makes for a disturbing reading.  Teachers and parents are equally pained by the used condoms strewn all over the discotheque.

It is just 60 days after another incidence when high school students were caught in a bus in Nyeri engaged in intense sex orgies. It seems drugs were used by the learners to stimulate their sexual desires.

BROTHER’S KEEPER

What happened to the phrase being one’s brother’s keeper? Reports that university and college comrades prey on young girls did not help matters. The young women have no independent mental judgment to consent. The young adults should be arraigned in court to answer serious charges bordering on rape and defilement.  The victims cannot be blamed.

Parents on their part should admit blame. Their parental advisory or lack of could be linked to their sons and daughters going rogue right under their watchful eyes. Parents should be more vigilant especially when their children are ever so cheeky.  Others even are barely adolescents are actively involved in sex.

It is against basic freedoms for Sam’s Discotheque to prohibit the young people and other revelers from making calls and taking photos inside the club. One’s privacy is paramount. After all this is a public space. The management of the unregistered disco must be hiding somethings under the cover of their underground dens. The management too should be prosecuted.

The club is reportedly owned by powerful individual(s) which make police keep away yet the club is mere 30 meters away from the police station.