Speaking during the launch of the report on the state of drugs and substance use in the universities, Murkomen expressed concerns about the trend which has been linked to the rising drug and substance abuse.
He said the government is going to make deliberate efforts to arrest this culture.
National Agency for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NACADA) Director Research, Standards and Licensing John Muteti had claimed some of these students are behind the sale of drugs in the institutions.
Murkomen noted that some students, initially enrolled in courses meant to take four years, have ended up staying for up to seven years, often due to drug-related activities.
“We need to investigate why a student is not leaving school, pretending to finish one course and move to another course sometimes or delaying their finishing school,” he said.
He said some universities some time back had notorious students who were very rich, influential and doing no business.
“We want to deal with those types of students because of the business they do around.”
He directed Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja to strengthen all the police stations that are operating near the universities to heighten investigations into it.
“We want intelligence officers to work with the universities, the university students and the police officers so that we get proper intelligence and interventions in dealing with drugs abuse, especially with cannabis, heroin and cocaine,” he said.
The report released by NACADA states that friends contribute 66.4 per cent of sources of drugs with evidence showing students being involved in the supply and sale of the drugs.
He called for the enforcement of regulations to restrict the sale of cheap alcohol near educational institutions as part of the effort to curb drug abuse among the youth.
The CS further stressed the need to implement regulations against the sale of inexpensive alcohol near educational institutions as a first step in combating drug and substance abuse among the youth.
"We need to ban these cheap spirits and funny alcohol first and designate the canteens to say you can sell certain levels of alcohol," he said.
He stated that the finding that female university students have a higher prevalence of moderately severe (6.4 per cent) and severe (4.1 per cent) depressive disorders compared to their male counterparts (5.2 per cent and three per cent, respectively) raises significant concerns for the future of girls.
Kanja who was present said he is not going to support anything that threatens the future of the youth.
He said to protect young people from drug abuse, “we will strengthen our efforts by involving the Anti-Terror Unit.”
The survey was conducted by the National Agency for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NACADA).
