Graffiti glorifying drug abuse on the bus which the students were arrested in. | image source: the-star.co.ke
Forty students have been arrested on Wednesday afternoon for allegedly having sex inside a Nairobi-bound bus as well as smoking bhang and tobacco.
The students, who are from various high schools, were said to be travelling back to their homes the August holidays and are currently locked up at the Kiangwachi Police Patrol base in Kirinyaga county.
Upon their arrest, the students were thoroughly searched by police officers one of them was found with several rolls of bhang, tobacco and matches hidden in her underwear.
Graffiti on the matatu bus, named 'Team Cash', that they were travelling in seemed to encourage and inspire their actions as it had such as "Why go to high school when you can't go to school high."
A resident of the area where the arrests were made, Jadidah Nyawira, said that she spotted the heavily intoxicated students in the bus, in which loud music was being played, at the Kibirigwi trading centre.
She added that the students were engaging in indecent behaviour publicly hence prompting residents to call the police on them.
Many of the students arrested in the 33-seater bus, intercepted on Karatina-Nairobi highway, were from Nyeri county, said Kirinyaga county Education director Elizabeth Karani.
Karani said she asked the county police commander and commissioner to ensure action is taken against the driver and conductor.
She also added that another bus ferrying intoxicated students to Nairobi was intercepted at Makuyu on the same day.
“We will deal with the students from the board of management to ensure such is not repeated,” she said.
“I am urging the security team to be alert, especially this week when schools are being closed for the August holiday, to ensure any vehicle ferrying young boys and girls is thoroughly inspected."
- The STAR