Residents of Migori County have decried rising cases of drug abuse by students in secondary schools and university graduates. Some of the drugs include bhang and alcohol.
They attributed the vice to negligence by Principals who do not apply strict rules in boarding schools but instead allow students to sneak the unchecked drugs into the institutions after holidays.
They appealed to parents to enforce stringent rules to any member of teaching or subordinate staff who collided with students in doing the vice.
Daniel Obonyo who talked to Education News in Awendo town narrated how his son in secondary school is addicted to alcohol because of involving himself in bad company.
Rehabilitation centre
He appealed to parents to scrutinise the type of colleagues their children interact with and intervene before they are completely swallowed into their evil influence.
The affected parents appealed to both National and county government to build a rehabilitation centre in area that will help the residents especially youth to recover.
A section of Migori town.
“This large indulgence in the abuse of drugs of by our children will finish the community unless the government intervenes,” he said.
He blamed the high rate of alcoholism among the university graduates from the area saying that they plunged themselves into the habit because of frustrations caused by lack of employment after finishing higher education.
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Agela Owiti, a resident of Migori town, said most of the victims come from poor families which are not able to take them to a rehab centres for treatment because of lack of money.
Owit argued that the only available rehabilitation centres are found far in the neighbouring Homa Bay and Kisii counties and those who come from poor homes cannot afford transport fee for medical consultation and possible treatment.
Former Migori County Council chairman Geoffrey Odera asked the government to consider recruiting university graduates from the area in the military forces as the only immediate remedy for the drug abuse menace.
By Enock Okong’o
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