Post: Nandi Hills residents urged to empower boy child academically

Nandi East Sub County Assistant County Commissioner (ACC) Charity Ashioya has called on area residents to empower the boy child academically noting that in Nandi County greater emphasis has been placed on educating girls compared boys.Speaking at Nandi Hills in a gathering at Samoei Nursery, Ashioya divulged that the community has concentrated on empowering the girls while ignoring the boys adding that this has greatly impacted the community negatively.She observed that a greater percentage of boys in Nandi County have not realized the importance of education resulting in lack of progression to higher levels of education whereas the girls are working tirelessly to ensure they excel from one level to another.'Our ladies are really trying because they have realized the importance of education but we need an equal mate in society. The boy child has lagged behind because they have not realized their place in the society,' explained ACC Ashioya.The administrator called on parents to ensure they give the n ecessary support to school going children to ensure they minimize cases of school drop outs adding that most boys do not progress to higher levels of education due to lack of enlightenment.She further observed that there is a lot of imbalance in society and the only equalizer is education asserting that most of the insecurity cases in society like gender-based violence, domestic violence as well as consumption of illicit brews is as a result of lack of enlightenment on the part of the boy child.'Let us allow our boys to go through all levels of education. The ladies are overtaking our boys. This has resulted in most children being raised by single mothers.The girl child who has been empowered lacks equal mates in the society,' pointed out the administrator adding that when the males are empowered insecurity cases decline thus making the work of security agents easier.Source: Kenya News Agency