Parents in Kibera have advised university students to follow the right channels in airing their complaints instead of resorting to strikes.
Speaking at Kamukunji grounds on Thursday, Charles Wafula said the students should focus on what took them to school and incase of any challenge, they should raise it through proper channels.
Their remarks come after students from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Science and Technology (Juja) went on strike on Wednesday night over damage fees, while their colleagues at Masinde Muliro University went on the rampage over the death of their colleague at a Kakamega hospital.
Wafula said the students engage in activities that will not help them in future.
“You know these youths are active members in society but are very delicate. They only think we should always give them the attention. While they are in groups, they only think of making trouble. Little do they know that when the law catches up them, they suffer as an individual,” he said.
“It is painful for a parent to struggle taking his/her child to school and later learn that their efforts were being wasted. Our youths come from home when they are focused but meet other people who in turn them into crooks. They later start behaving like lost sheep,” said Daudi Abdi.
The parents now want the university students to act mature.
“Striking and destroying property does not solve anything. In fact, it adds trouble to another. It I the parents who suffer when a child is asked to pay what they destroyed during the strike,” added Wafula.