Kisumu East Sub-County Director of Education Mrs Jane Mtange has warned teachers whom have been involved in the defilement cases that their day are numbered.
Speaking in her office, Mrs Mtange said alarm has been raised that some teachers have been involved in defilement saga despite the fact that she had not officially received any case from her sub-county.
Mrs Mtange called upon the area teachers to obey rules and regulations of education and avoid forceful sexual intercourse with students they teach.
She, however, noted that sometimes there might be those cases in her sub-county but the parents tend to collude with the teachers to cover up the case.
“Teachers should handle students properly but not to hurt them and destroy their future because the future of the child is in the hands of the very teachers and the parents,” added Mrs Mtange.
Mrs Mtange thus appealed to the parents to avoid solving defilement cases out of court saying it is diminishing the rights of a child.
She cautioned the parents also to make sure they are well conversant with bodaboda operators who always take their children to schools saying that some bodaboda operators might mishandle the child and disappear if their whereabouts are not well known.
“Be aware of whom is taking your child to school, or else the children fall pray of such people who might end up defiling your child which will make it so hectic to report since details of such victims will not be easily known,” urged Mrs Mtange.
Meanwhile the Sub-County Education boss added that most of the students and pupils in the rural areas are prone to alcohol due to what she termed as poor relations that their parents have with them.
She revealed that students tend to associate much with their parents when they are making busaa or chang’aa and that makes them taste the alcohol and later get used to it, leading to them being addicts.
She therefore appealed to the parents to avoid associating their children with alcohol to reduce the number of engagements of students in drinking alcoholic staffs.