Parents have been asked to provide enough study material and other personal effects to their children as they return to school after the term 2 break.
Priest Lawrence Nyaanga, who doubles as Kisii University chaplain, noted that there are parents who send their children to school unguarded and cautioned them against the practice because it exposed them to peer pressure, drug abuse, sexual predators and accidents.
“Let us accompany our children to school to cushion them from temptations,” he said.
He advised parents to visit their children in school, and also iron out school fee payments with principals instead of waiting for students to be sent home.
Nyaanga, who is also the National Campaign Authority Against Drug Abuse And Alcohol (NACADA) county Chairman, blamed the rise in cases of drug abuse and illicit alcohol in the region and attributed it to laxity from security organs.
The priest who was addressing the congregation at Boracho church on Sunday, cautioned wines and spirit vendors against selling their products to students.
He regretted that the fight against use of illicit beer by youth in the county was becoming a challenge as the sellers were repacking them into bottles of water from where students could drink in public without detection.
Nyaanga asked Kisii County Police boss Charles Kesses to intensify surveillance using plain cloth police officers to crack down on the lawbreakers.
He further asked the authorities to pass severe imprisonment terms on culprits found guilty of selling drugs to students.
By Enock Okong’o
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