Police in plain clothes and armed with whips were deployed to all bus parks and streets within Thika town to tame groups of rowdy students who had gone on midterm break. The students from various schools met in town and wrecked havoc as they engaged in acts of lawlessness including drinking alcohol, chewing miraa and smoking bhang. Tension was high within the town streets as students changed into home clothes and went on a drinking spree, engaged in broad daylight romancing and cuddling on streets. It took the intervention of the police who whipped the students and forced the boys and girls into their respective Matatus and directed the drivers to drive off. Area deputy police boss Mary Kiarie told the press that police were on high alert and any student caught engaging in acts of lawlessness will be apprehended and held in custody. “Members of the public had complained of students drinking and smoking bhang in the backstreets and that police rose to the control of the situation,” said Kiarie. She revealed that already two young men suspected to be students were apprehended after they were caught roughing up a passerby in one of the streets in town. “Hooligans dressed in school uniforms were also taking advantage of the rowdy situation and in the process loot property and steal from commuters in the bus-parks,” she said.

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