Kisumu County Commissioner bans Disco Matanga.

   Kisumu County Commissioner Pauline Dola{R} during this year's Mashujaa Day Celebrations in Kisumu today.She has issue a directive banning music played at funerals at night-Photo By  Dickson Odhiambo.

  

By Dickson Odhiambo.

October 20, 2018.

Kisumu County Commissioner bans Disco Matanga.

KISUMU County Commissioner Pauline Dola has issued a directive to Sub-County Commissioners and Chiefs to immediately ban the night time music played in funerals popularly known as Disco Matanga within the county.

The County Commissioner cites the issue of early pregnancies among girls and the issue of insecurity in some parts of the country being caused by the frequent Disco Matanga.

Addressing the residents of Kisumu County during Mashujaa celebrations today at Jomo Kenyatta Sports Ground, the Kisumu County Commissioner said that any Chief and their Assistant who will be found issuing permits to play music at funeral at night popularly known as Dicso matanga will be dealt with in accordance to the law.

“I want to warn our Chiefs and their Assistants that should they issue permits to play music at night at funerals within Kisumu County then they will be dealt with in accordance to the law,” Dola says.

Dola says it is through these Disco Matanga where young girls engage in immorality resulting into early pregnancies, adding that these also further contributes to increase of cases of insecurity within the county.

“We have realized that Disco Matanga contributes to insecurity within some parts of our county. It also contributes the issue of early pregnancies among the girls and this has now made us to ban it within the entire county with immediate effect,” Madam Dola adds.

The County Commissioner says children will be staying home for long during the forthcoming holiday after the KCPE and KCSE Exams concluded hence the need not to tolerate the issue of disco Matanga at all cost.

At the same time, Kisumu County Commissioner has reiterated the Governments full commitment in ensuring that the National Examinations that kicks off next week is secure and safe.

She says in Kisumu County, all the necessary measures have been put in place so as to ensure safety and security of all exams materials in all the seven sub-counties within Kisumu County.

She confirms that all the Sub-County Commissioners within the County have received keys to the various containers where the Kenya National Examination Council will keep the national exams materials.

The Kisumu County Commissioner has warned that anyone who will be found in any act of irregularity during the national exams will also be dealt with accordingly.

“I want to warn people who will engage in any form of irregularity during this forthcoming National Exams that they will be dealt with,” she further adds.

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