Disco matanga ban ends teenage pregnancies

Coast Regional Coordinator John Elungata confirmed that only two pupils out of the over 109,000 pupils were forced to sit for the exams at their maternity wards [Courtesy]

The Government has lauded the crackdown on the disco matangas (night vigil festivities) saying it had yielded fruits in the moral behaviour of youths in the Coast region.  The region recorded almost zero cases of teenage pregnancies amongst the candidates who sat the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations that recently concluded.

Coast Regional Coordinator John Elungata confirmed that only two pupils out of the over 109,000 pupils were forced to sit for the exams at their maternity wards, one pupil in Mombasa County and one pupil in Kilifi County, unlike in the other years when teenage pregnancy was rampant.