Government to establish police posts near colleges, universities to curb campus crime - CS Murkomen
The measure is part of the interventions being planned to take criminal activities across institutions countrywide, amongst them the sale and distribution of illicit drugs.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has announced plans to set up police posts near some colleges and higher institutions of learning in the country.
This, he said, will help address crime challenges that happen within and around the institutions.
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"The students need to hear this; many things are happening in our universities. There are drugs, insecurity, violence, with people being beaten inside. So we have said that at the sub-county level, student leaders' representatives and the deans of students will be called to attend security committee meetings to contribute to how security shall be heightened at the institutions, and so that they have a direct relationship with the security teams," Murkomen said.
"In fact, in many places we've been to across the country, we have agreed to set up police posts near some colleges and universities because they had been neglected."
The CS noted that such institutions comprise a new population that has been introduced to an area and, therefore, must be taken care of.
At the same time, the measure is part of the interventions being planned to take criminal activities across institutions countrywide, amongst them the sale and distribution of illicit drugs.
In February, a National Campaign Against Drug and Substance Abuse (NACADA) report revealed that at least 46 per cent of students in local universities have abused at least one drug or substance in their lifetime, while 26.6 per cent of others are actively abusing them.
The Status of Drugs and Substance Use among University Students in Kenya (2024) Report was based on a study conducted on 15,678 students from 17 local private and public universities across the eight administrative units of Nairobi, Coast, Nyanza, Western, Central, Eastern (upper and lower), North Eastern and Rift Valley (North and South) that shows alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, khat, and even emerging substances like methamphetamine and codeine syrup are finding their way into the lives of Kenyan students.
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