Teachers and boda boda riders to blame for early pregnancy cases

Mukumu Girls Secondary School students hire a boda boda in Kakamega town on their way back to school. Teachers and boda boda operators have been accused of being behind the majority of teenage pregnancies. [Photo: Benjamin Sakwa/Standard]

Teachers and boda boda riders to blame for early pregnancy cases main reason for school drop-outs and early marriages," reads the 2015 National Adolescent and Youth preliminary report released yesterday.

Unsafe sexual behaviour, drug abuse, poverty and parental negligence are cited as some of the major factors that have led to the high number of early pregnancies among school going children.