Parents who do not take their children to school when schools reopen this week and instead use them as labourers have been put on notice.
Speaking on Sunday, Juja MP Francis Munyua said that every child has the right to education as enshrined in the constitution and anyone infringing that right will be arrested and brought to book.
“There has been an increment in the rate of school dropouts in primary schools in my area due to the quarries yet the national government is offering free and compulsory primary education where their parents are using them as a source of their economy," he said, adding: "such parents will be arrested and prosecuted with immediate effect.”
He added that children who reside from slums and poor backgrounds will be assisted to go to school since it is the only investment that a parent can pass to children that will be used to transform the community.
Juja has the largest number of quarries in Kiambu County and parents who own them are said to be giving their children, as young as 15 years, their share and thus leading to school dropouts.
The legislator said he is working with the area chiefs to get rid of the business for children in the quarries and identify those defying the directive so as the can be charged.