Parents in Kilifi county have been warned against engaging their children in child labour, especially during the holidays.
Speaking to Education News from Malindi town recently, Shella sub-location Senior Assistant Chief Nicodemus Mwayele further reminded parents of their responsibility to offer equal educational opportunities to all their children irrespective of gender.
He reiterated that school children should not be employed at all and should instead be engaged with home chores.
The Administrator cautioned that parents found to have allowed their school children to work as domestic workers and hawkers will immediately be arrested and prosecuted.
Mwayele extended the warning to the business community against employing school children, saying they will be arrested and arraigned at Court.
By Tsozungu Kombe
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