The study recommends that the TSC should post properly trained guidance and counselling teachers to schools to offer guidance to the youth on dangers of joining fundamentalist sects or other militia groups. It is further recommended that schools should use peer counsellors to counsel fellow students as peers are more trusted by their fellow peers. The peer could easily turn wayward fellow peers into the right direction. The study also recommends that parents should take up their parenting roles and responsibilities more seriously in order to monitor and offer guidance to their children. The guidance should include spiritual and moral issues. The study further recommends that the government should use its intelligence machinery and apparatus to identify and decisively deal with fundamentalist sects before they entrench themselves and completely disrupt the lives of citizens, especially the vulnerable youth.
The government, it is further recommended, through its law enforcement machinery should make every effort to offer security to all Kenyans especially the youth. This will make the youth have the confidence of rejecting overtures to join militias and sects without feeling that such refusal compromises their well-being and security.
Another recommendation is that all stakeholders should lay down intervention measures aimed at curbing the spread of fundamentalist sects. Finally the study recommends equitable effort in ensuring that the girl-child as well as the boy-child access education. This is because ignoring the boy-child makes him frustrated and feels neglected and therefore, becomes vulnerable to exploitation by emerging militias and sects.
Further studies should be carried out in non-native Kikuyu areas to find out if Mungiki or any other fundamentalist groups have infiltrated the field of education. Higher institutions of learning such as colleges and universities should also be targeted for further studies to assess the extent to which organised groups, sects or militias may have on the students‘ ability to continue accessing formal education and training. A study may also be undertaken to find out why the government, though willing, is unable to decisively deal with the Mungiki or the phenomenon of organised gangs menace.
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APPENDIX I: INTRODUCTION LETTER
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY School of Education
Department of Educational Foundations
Dear Respondent,
I am a postgraduate student at Kenyatta University conducting a study titled, The Effect of Mungiki Sect on Access to Education in Nyeri County.
You have been selected to participate in this study. Kindly respond to all items in the attached questionnaire. Your name need not appear anywhere in the questionnaire. The information you provide will be used for academic purposes only.
Your cooperation is highly appreciated. Yours sincerely,