Nakuru County government has been urged to construct a rehabilitation centre at Kiamaina slums to absorb drug and substance addicts.
Kiamaina ‘Nyumba Kumi’ chairman, David Mwangi says such social initiative would help to rehabilitate the youth who are prone to drugs, and revive their hopes to be respectable members of society.
Speaking on Thursday at Kiamaina shopping centre, Kiamaina Ward, Bahati Constituency during a counseling session to Kiamaina youth, Mwangi said the existence of rehabilitation centre would reduce cases of drug and substance use among the youth.
“With creation of a rehabilitation centre, our youth will be modeled into respectable members of society, We want our youth to be educated in matters that touch reproductive health and how to prevent them from indulging into irresponsible sexual behavior,” said Mwangi.
He also urged the county government to provide more resources to address the plight facing youth in the slum, further stressing the need of such rehabilitation centre as the way-out to the challenges facing the slum youth.
“With rehabilitation centre, youth can be enrolled into basic skills like welding, carpentry and joinery and tailoring to enable them to be busy and a void devil's workshop,” added Mwangi.
Peter Kimani, a destitute said lack of counseling and guidance have been the root cause of all troubles bedeviling slum youth.
“Some of us have on parents, mothers, brothers or sisters to offer us moral guidance, so we are easily indulged into drug abuse and crimes,” said Kimani.
The counseling session saw more that 200 slum youth turn up.