Impact of teenage
pregnancies has been felt in Nyandarua county with 900 girls reported expectant.
A report by National Council and Population
Development indicates that the ‘young mothers’ are aged between 10 and 19
years.
The report reveals that the girls were lured
into sex by their peers and old men following poor parenthood, peer pressure,
lack of guidance.
It is suspected that the girls had been exposed to pornographic materials
through social media platforms and poverty in their homes.
They were impregnated
between March when the schools were closed and June. The government ordered
closure of learning institutions to help stop spread of Covid 19.
Nyandarua MP Faith Gitau
on her part has offered to assist school going girls who have been impregnated
continue with their education after giving birth.
The legislator has asked their parents to report
to her office so that they could be assisted to help them not get stigmatized.
Ms Gitau said that her office would offer both
financial and moral support to the girls to enable them return to schools after
they deliver.
“This is a crisis that we are facing and i
want to call the parents of the affected girls to contact my office for
support.We should not allow them to get stigmatised or even discontinue with
education,” she said
She spoke at Kametha primary school in Ndaragwa constituency,
when she distributed sanitary towels to over 200 girls and water tanks
to various health centers.
She called on parents to end the habit of
solving this crisis locally and report to the police when their girls are
impregnated.
“Let us not use the kangaroo courts to solve
such matters. The law should take its course so that the perpetrators of these
crimes are charged” said Ms Gitau.
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