While many students are aspiring to make their parents proud after the national exams in Kenya, there are those who are being pushed to the wall by parents to destroy their future.
Unfortunately as a result of anger the police have arrested a teenager who sat for his KCPE exam this month after the 16 year old boy hacked his father to death in Malava sub-county on Wednesday following a domestic quarrel.
The two differed when the father, 54, attempted to sell two 2 kg tins of maize to raise money to buy illicit alcohol.
“The father had gone to attend rites in the neighbourhood and returned drunk. He wanted to pick maize to sell, but the son resisted. When he insisted on going away with the maize, the suspect picked a panga and slashed him to death,” a cousin revealed.
The deceased’s cousin said the boy had beaten his father three times before.
The boy fled but was later arrested.He is currently being held at Malava police station.
Alcoholism is the most serious form of problem drinking, and describes a strong, often uncontrollable, desire to drink. Sufferers of alcoholism will often place drinking above all other obligations, including work and family, and may build up a physical tolerance or experience withdrawal symptoms if they stop.
Under Luhya customs, a person who kills a family member is disowned and has to seek refuge at his maternal uncles’ homes.
The slain person’s body is normally buried at night after carrying out a series of rites, including burning the house of the suspect.
“We are not happy and we would have killed him if we found him before the police did,” the cousin said.
Kimang’eti assistant chief Joseph Juma asked parents to counsel their children to respect the elderly.
How you think the boy should have handled the incident?