school students arrested in kenya for alcohol consumption
10 ஜூலை 2013: கென்யாவில் மதுப்பழக்கத்தில் ஈடுபட்டதாக 1000க்கும் அதிகமான பள்ளிச் சிறுவர்களை அந்நாட்டு காவல்துறையினர் கைது செய்தனர்.
கென்யாவில் சம்பள உயர்வு கோரி ஆசிரியர்கள் கடந்த மூன்று வாரமாக வேலைநிறுத்தப் போராட்டத்தில் ஈடுபட்டு வருகின்றனர். இதனால் பள்ளிகள் அனைத்தும் இயங்காததால், பெரும்பாலான பள்ளிச் சிறுவர்கள் கிளப்புகள் மற்றும் மதுபானக்கடைகளில் சுற்றித் திரிகின்றனர். இது குறித்து காவல்துறைக்கு தகவல் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டது. இதையடுத்து தேடுதல் வேட்டையில் இறங்கிய காவல்துறையினர் தலைநகர் நைரோபியில் மட்டும் மதுப்பழக்கத்தில் ஈடுபட்ட 1000-க்கும் அதிகமான பள்ளிச் சிறுவர்களை கைது செய்தனர்.
school students arrested in kenya for alcohol consumption
English Summary:
More than 1,000 children suspected of under-age drinking were arrested in Kenya’s capital Nairobi over the weekend, police say. Bars and clubs were raided after complaints that they had become crowded with schoolchildren during a three-week teachers’ strike. Most of the children were later released because there were not enough cells to hold them, police said. Teachers are on a nationwide strike to demand better pay. The Secretary General of the Kenya National Association of Parents, Musau Ndunda, said it was sad that children spent their time in bars and clubs instead of school. We have arrested the bar operators although we are yet to get the owners” Patrick Oduma, Nairobi central police chief. “But it is the government which should be blamed for not being keen to resolve the teachers strike,” he said.
“Instead of playing politics, why not pay the teachers and they will go back to class and our children will definitely stream back to school.” Nairobi central police chief Patrick Oduma said the raids were carried out to put a stop to young boys converging on “reggae music discotheques”. “To our surprise we found there is a very big number of under-age children [drinking],” he said. “We have arrested the bar operators although we are yet to get the owners.”
Mr Oduma said 116 of the children have been kept in custody. The rest were released because police cells were full, he added. The detained children laughed and shouted as they were taken in a police lorry to court, the BBC’s Emmanuel Igunza reports from the scene. Dozens of parents, mainly women, had gathered to hear the fate of their children, he says.