Student from a secondary school in Kabarnet town, Eldoret as left the whole town stunned after he drunk himself to the point of being unrecognizable hours after breaking for holidays.
The student is said to have gone to one of the joints and plastered himself having all the freedom from the school after a vigorous term.
Residents, among them bodaboda riders joined hands and helped the student to board a motorcycle as they accompanied him to their home.
As students go for their October holidays, teachers have requested that parents monitor their children intently.
This will help them in guaranteeing that they don’t draw themselves in any inappropriate practices, for example, participating in any early s3xual practices, drugs, and substances abuse.
According to a study conducted between March and June 2016 by NACADA that explored the secondary students’ drugs and substance use behavior and related risk factors showed that alcohol (23.4%) was the most commonly used substance of abuse by students followed by khat / miraa (17.0%), prescription drugs (16.1%), tobacco (14.5%), bhang / marijuana (7.5%), inhalants (2.3%), heroin (1.2%) and cocaine (1.1%)
The report additionally reveals that secondary schools in Kenya were not drug free environments and in this way there is need to settle in fundamental skills in the school program.
The said study additionally uncovered that agitation and violence witnessed in secondary schools in Kenya are significantly because of Drug and substance abuse in those institutions.
Schools all over have closed and proceeded for holidays. Kenyan school schedules were disrupted after Covid-19 broke driving the nation to be under lockdown in major towns in a transition to forestall the spread of the virus.
