A section of Tala residents have cried foul over high number of street children in Tala town.
Residents said that the children turn out to be criminals at night.
Speaking in a baraza on Monday residents confessed of attacks by the street children.
Joseph Muasya, a hardware retailer narrated how he has witnessed ladies preyed upon by the young hostile boys.
“For me I have not had an experience with them because they know me very well. However women and children are their main target,” said Muasya.
He added that he had witnessed two young boys snatching a handbag from a lady after which they fled away through thin streets.
Area chief Pius Nzioka said that street children were on the increase whereby they collect scrap metal, plastic containers and even empty litter bins to earn themselves a few coins instead of attending school.
The chief urged the parents to know the whereabouts of their children as such incidents come as a result of lack of parental guidance.
“I want to urge parents to ensure that their children attend schools. Most of the street children are school drop outs,” said Nzioka.
This comes a week after Tala MCA, Alex Peter Kimitu, said that the rate at which the street children were increasing is alarming.
Kimitu had said that he will soon launch an exercise to collect all the street children and take them to orphanage homes and care-giver institutions.
“Many young boys who are in the streets are camouflaging into thieves while the young girls turning out to be prostitutes. This is not the society we want to bring forth in future,” said Kimitu