STUDENTS SNEAKING DRUGS IN KENYAN HIGH SCHOOLS

Present time boarding schools are facing a new war and era in terms of drug abuse.

With teachers making tout rules, students are adopting new techniques to endure drug circulation and trafficking continues unabated in Kenyan high schools. Some of the above ways are revealed below exclusively with luizquincy.

Bag straps are nowadays being sited to cover up drugs including tobacco and bang. Since the slit is against ones shoulder, it becomes quite difficult for teachers to notice and thus drugs find their way into Kenyan high schools.

"Students cut through bag straps and hide drugs, we have come to notice this quite recently and it is unfortunate that even with regular inspections such tactics were not noticed, some schools handle such with zero tolerance" said Mr Martin Mowel (not real name)

Another tactic is through slitting edges of trousers from the bottom. A small slit is made on the trouser's turn up and drugs squeezed into the space all round the bottom of trousers, this style has been used in schools around Taita Taveta and Malindi Counties respectively. It goes to show how much teachers need to do on matters discipline.

Another method students meploy is carrying drugs in blueband containers. A packed can full of blue and is reduced and drugs stashed therein, the remaining margarine is then scooped and poured on top to disguise the drugs wether bang, tobacco covered in nylon and cigarettes.

It has also been noticed that watchmen make a lot of money with their gatekeeping role. Students are covered up by watchmen who don't a lot of cash by allowing drugs to get inside schooll premises. This is yet to be noticed in many boarding schools.

Also, integrated schools where dayscolers coexist with boarders is a tough call to make.Teachers are finding hard to control the entry of drugs in schools which have day and boarding at the same establish ant. Dayscolers share classes, environment and even food with boarders who are caged within schools for a term or so. This situation allows boarders to send dayscolers who then bring drugs to school premises