KNUT said day schooling girls were more vulnerable to abuse as bodaboda riders give them lifts to solicit sex in return.

Further, the union suggested that the Government should introduce school feeding programme to restrict movement of girls who fall victims as predators mislead them by buying them lunch.

The union also wants the ministry of education to provide sanitary towels, address child labour and devise ways of making learners busy during long holidays to cushion them from temptations from sex pests.

The presentations were made when education stakeholders appeared before the committee led by Bomet Senator Christopher Langat seeking to discuss how to curb Teenage pregnancies.

Others stakeholders who presented, National Council of Churches in Kenya (NCCK), Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), and the Muslim Education Council.

KCCB said that 250 cases of child abuse had been handled in Malindi Diocese including child prostitution, sex tourism, incest, child marriage and defilement.

Between 2016 to 2018, Kitale Diocese had dealt with 21 defilement cases all of which had been prosecuted.In Homabay 308 cases had been recorded since 2016.

“It’s noted that all these cases are far below the reality given the culture of silence, compromise, fear and local arrangements,  that discourage reporting of defilement cases,” said KCCB secretary general of education commission Augusta Muthingani.

The clergy sharply criticized a sex education curriculum in the pipeline with NCCK Deputy General Secretary Nelson Makanda saying the curriculum promoted “sexuality as a right.”

“The curriculum promotes sexuality as a right which is extremely worrying … If you look at the areas where it’s being implemented there are very high numbers of immoral behavior among teens,” he said.

KCCB also in their presentation lamented that the curriculum would promote the use of contraceptives among teens. Hassan Kinyua from the Muslim Education Council said a study they had conducted found out that the causes of school teen pregnancies included poverty, peer pressure and neglect of the boy child.

Conspicuously missing was the Ministry of Education which Langat said the committee had quarrels with. Interior CS Fred Matiangi had also been invited but didn’t appear.

KNUT said day schooling girls were more vulnerable to abuse as bodaboda riders give them lifts to solicit sex in return.

Further, the union suggested that the Government should introduce school feeding programme to restrict movement of girls who fall victims as predators mislead them by buying them lunch.

The union also wants the ministry of education to provide sanitary towels, address child labour and devise ways of making learners busy during long holidays to cushion them from temptations from sex pests.

The presentations were made when education stakeholders appeared before the committee led by Bomet Senator Christopher Langat seeking to discuss how to curb Teenage pregnancies.

Others stakeholders who presented, National Council of Churches in Kenya (NCCK), Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB), and the Muslim Education Council.

KCCB said that 250 cases of child abuse had been handled in Malindi Diocese including child prostitution, sex tourism, incest, child marriage and defilement.

Between 2016 to 2018, Kitale Diocese had dealt with 21 defilement cases all of which had been prosecuted.In Homabay 308 cases had been recorded since 2016.

“It’s noted that all these cases are far below the reality given the culture of silence, compromise, fear and local arrangements,  that discourage reporting of defilement cases,” said KCCB secretary general of education commission Augusta Muthingani.

The clergy sharply criticized a sex education curriculum in the pipeline with NCCK Deputy General Secretary Nelson Makanda saying the curriculum promoted “sexuality as a right.”

“The curriculum promotes sexuality as a right which is extremely worrying … If you look at the areas where it’s being implemented there are very high numbers of immoral behavior among teens,” he said.

KCCB also in their presentation lamented that the curriculum would promote the use of contraceptives among teens. Hassan Kinyua from the Muslim Education Council said a study they had conducted found out that the causes of school teen pregnancies included poverty, peer pressure and neglect of the boy child.

Conspicuously missing was the Ministry of Education which Langat said the committee had quarrels with. Interior CS Fred Matiangi had also been invited but didn’t appear.