WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT KENYAN VARSITIES, AND WHAT THEY ARE
Due to our current education system in the country, it is the joy of every Kenyan parent when their children join tertiary. Similarly, their children are also excited about joining campus because they would have a new experience. realistically, there is an ego that gets into them as they know they are going to start a new life, most of them away from their parents.
What the society doesn’t know is that in varsities, “comrades” suffer from a “disease” known as peer pressure, which sways almost 70% of the students into vices. Surprisingly almost all the activities in campuses, including the dress code and learning, are geared by peer pressure.
Out of peer pressure, the students involve themselves in drug trafficking and abuse. It is with great sympathy that I write this to say that our youths in colleges and universities are becoming drug slaves. Earlier on, this menace was thought to affect the male gender, but today it has shifted to the ladies. It happens too fast whenever they gather together for their celebrations what they baptize as “BASH.” Most of the commonly abused drugs in our varsities, out of the personal experience, are alcohol, Khat, and Bhang.
Today according to records of particular colleges, they receive high cases of early pregnancies and HIV/AIDS yearly. “In a year, we register not less than 10 cases of pregnancy.” Madam Achieng’ an official in one of Mombasa college. She also added that many students fear visiting VCT
Achieng says that the cause of early pregnancy cases is as a result of unhealthy relationships amongst students and lack of awareness.” Many of our students find themselves in unhealthy relationships that they usually end up breaking up.” She says that something should be done to save the fading away generation. “Students should realize their core business in school, in as much as being in relationships is also a way of developing; they should consider the type of relationships they establish.
The students have their say that most of these relationships are formed from nicknamed “dunda” and a new segment that only they who understand it known as “sleep overs.” They describe it as a situation where the girls to spend their weekend nights at men’s places. When its on a Friday, the campus outlook changes as those who live in the school hostels are seen walking out at dusk to visit their men for the weekend. The girls are then seen back on Monday morning. The students confess this and say that these parties and dundas have or may affect most of them, claiming that all this is as a result of peer pressure. They say that this also has affected the performance of most of the students at large.
Parents cited that its time the youths in the varsities learn to secure their present lives as there is still a future awaiting them, and therefore they should stop wasting their own lives. The parents also say that the students tarnish the image and expectations that they have about them, and they raise the alarm for something to be done to salvage the situation. They also say today whenever a campus student is seen walking on the streets, they are seen as immoral. They added,” Today’s universities have lost their value and taste. They are not like before.”
agree with most parents my sources and subjects that something should be done to change the image of our varsities and return them to the images they were thought of.