The committee chairman Hassan Wario said it was alarming that 13,000 young girls got pregnant during this year’s KCPE examinations. “We have concentrated so much in building the infrastructure until we forgot the social issues, these figures of teen pregnancies are scary,” Mr Wario said. “The picture is gloomy and something should urgently be done at the national level to address the problem,” Mr Wario added.

Nominated MP and Knut Secretary-General Wilson Sossion asked the ministry team to also address young girls working as commercial sex workers at the Coast.

Last week, Education CS Amina Mohamed decried the high number of teenage pregnancies reported and ordered the quality assurance team in the Education ministry to investigate and file a report of all cases of pregnancies among school girls. The CS noted that the move will enable the ministry to outline measures to curb such cases.