Teachers of Rianchaga Primary School have raised concerns over adolescent pregnancies among pupils, which leads to them dropping out of school.
They blamed parents for their failure to provide them with basic needs, which exposes them to sexual predators who lure them with money to satisfy their needs.
Speaking to parents during the school parents and teachers consultative meeting on Thursday, June 19, 2025, the head teacher Ednah Nyaboke asked parents to show their children parental love especially girls and provide them with with their needs such as sanitary towels to enable them escape from from evil-minded adults who can buy them items in exchange for their bodies.
She asked parents to be close to their children during the short-term break and avoid sending them to run errands for their relatives where they end up victims of rape and defilement.
Saying that there is a lot of evil shrouded in darkness, the headteacher discouraged parents from sending their daughters to buy foodstuffs from the shop in late evenings to avoid child kidnapping.
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Community policing group member Samson Morang’a asked parents to buy fitting clothes for their daughters to protect them from wearing tightly fitting and provocative ones that attract lust from their admirers, to induce them into premature sexual interaction.
“These people are multiplying, monitor them by buying clothes of a good size to match their quickly expanding bodies,” he said.
He likened the life of a girl child to an egg that can break beyond repair at any time unless it is handled carefully and asked parents to be prayerful as they guide their children who are levigating their controversial and challenging adolescent journey.
The parents agreed to work as a team with teachers and the community to launch a vehement campaign against child abuse and drug abuse in the area to reclaim the wayward adolescents for school.
They appealed to the government to provide sufficient funds to schools, enabling them to establish modern infrastructure and create a learning environment for pupils.
By Enock Okong’o.
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