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Do parents really know what children do during holidays?
The Daylight Festival held at Splash Waterworld was supposed to be a fun day where teenagers were to dance, swim, play bouncing castles, get tattoos and other body piercings.
All these took place, but what has been shocking are the images and videos of their brazenly decadent behaviour. Testimonies from the various teenagers who attended the event on the Facebook Page of the event’s organisers tell as much.
Many teenagers were apparently too intoxicated, some even falling off the bouncing castles as other were arrested by the police for possession of bhang but they seem to have talked their way out, going by their confession.
The skimpily dressed young girls and the colourfully dressed boys are seen kissing, dancing erotically and flashing the middle finger liberally.
More is reported to have happened into the early hours of the night. The event was supposed to run from 11 in the morning to 7pm. However, it went into the twilight hours where it seems to have degenerated into the deep throes of debauchery.
The teenagers were charged Sh500 to enter and the organisers envisaged a musical party and the young girls were advised to be in bikinis or appropriate swimming gear. The event is one of the many instances that have brought to light the decadent teenage behaviour in Nairobi.
In July, more than 1,000 were arrested from night clubs in the CBD by the police who raided the many pubs known to be hosting teenage revellers.
Parents who talked to The Nairobian had divided opinions on the teenage behaviour. “The children are having innocent fun. Maybe the drinking and smoking is what we should be worried about. As for dancing, I see no problem,” said Joe Nyarangi, a father of two children aged ten and eight.
However, Jane Anguka, said: “It is utter rubbish to consider this ‘innocent fun’. We must connect with our children in order to make them change their behaviour when it is possible,” said the mother of two.
Social commentator Paul Opondo blamed the absence of parents on the seeming moral decay among teenagers in urban centres.
“Children have been left with domestic servants who lack the moral authority to correct kids when they err,” Opondo said.
