Kisii University Vice Chancellor Prof John Akama has blamed parents for failing to instill moral values in their children, contributing to their immoral behaviour.
Prof Akama linked young people's recruitment into outlawed groups to their parents' failure to educate them on their community's positive moral values, leaving them to ape foreign cultures which introduce them to extremist attributes to the detriment of their lives and academic careers.
Speaking at the University yesterday (Wednesday) during the official opening of the University's cultural week festivals, the VC observed that having the youth embrace negative foreign cultures at the expense of their communities' cultures tempts them to join illegal terror groups which endangers their lives and academic careers to the disadvantage of their families, communities and the country.
The scholar said parents' failure to exercise their parental roles in bringing up their children based on positive moral values and character had immensely contributed to many young people being recruited to terror gangs due to negative influence of foreign cultures.
"The cases we see around where our young people go astray with other becoming recruits of dangerous terror groups and militia are based on the parents' failure to bring up their children according to their respective communities' cultures which emphasise on positive cultural development among young people," argued Prof Akama.