Kenya: Idle Malindi Children to Be 'Arrested', Taken to School

MORE than 2,000 children in Malindi town have not reported back to school this year, a chief has said. Among them are children displaced from the Tana Delta by tribal clashes last year. Shela chief Nicodemus Mwayele said the children loiter around Malindi town despite the free primary education.

Speaking in Malindi at the weekend, the chief said they will "arrest" the children and take them back to school. Most of the children are below 14 years. Mwayele said parents whose children will be arrested will have to tell the police why they have failed to take them children to school.

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