Opinion / Columnist
Who shall tame the wayward youths?
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Teenage delinquency has descended on rural business centers and high school institutions, creating a situation as alarming as it is frightening. Drug snorting, "apprentice" harlotry, and general resistance to sound teachings and virtuous moral guidance have become widespread issues. Growth points are slowly turning into drug hubs for both sales and consumption. Wanton catfights have become everyday events with long-term consequences, sometimes resulting in ghastly injuries or even fatalities.
Prevention is better than cure. We need police visibility in rural areas if this scourge is to be contained. Small-time affirmative shoppers (thieves) are at work, stealing from homes and shops and committing daylight robberies. Some of these nocturnal gold fingers have since "graduated" to cattle rustlers, leaving villagers in panic mode. Mounted police and bicycle patrols could serve as a great deterrent.
The villages, once serene centers of peace, hospitality, farming, and astonishing picturesque landscapes, are gradually turning upside down. Some high schoolers have become laws unto themselves, leaving educators mere spectators. With their shirt collars standing on end, they strut about with exaggerated self-importance and pomposity, eyes scanning for trouble and drug runners. Education seems to have taken a back seat.
Before and after school, these students gather at APs (assembly points), which have become known rendezvous spots for that all-important drug pull, snort, injectable, or cannabis twist. Are we still molding the leaders and technocrats of tomorrow? Maybe yes, maybe no-perhaps we are creating another generation of Pablos in the making.
Indeed, times may be challenging, but difficult times often bring out the "tiger" in others, pushing them to think outside the box and rise to the occasion. However, rural communities are now at the mercy of unscrupulous elements—individuals high on drugs and ready to dispatch souls to kingdom come. To ensure safety and peace, communities need police visibility and embedded village police posts for reassurance.
Tondo Thomas Murisa
Mash. Central
Prevention is better than cure. We need police visibility in rural areas if this scourge is to be contained. Small-time affirmative shoppers (thieves) are at work, stealing from homes and shops and committing daylight robberies. Some of these nocturnal gold fingers have since "graduated" to cattle rustlers, leaving villagers in panic mode. Mounted police and bicycle patrols could serve as a great deterrent.
The villages, once serene centers of peace, hospitality, farming, and astonishing picturesque landscapes, are gradually turning upside down. Some high schoolers have become laws unto themselves, leaving educators mere spectators. With their shirt collars standing on end, they strut about with exaggerated self-importance and pomposity, eyes scanning for trouble and drug runners. Education seems to have taken a back seat.
Indeed, times may be challenging, but difficult times often bring out the "tiger" in others, pushing them to think outside the box and rise to the occasion. However, rural communities are now at the mercy of unscrupulous elements—individuals high on drugs and ready to dispatch souls to kingdom come. To ensure safety and peace, communities need police visibility and embedded village police posts for reassurance.
Tondo Thomas Murisa
Mash. Central
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