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The teenage drinking menace: Who is to blame?

On the August 4, a bar in the leafy suburbs of Nyarutarama hit the headlines of various media outlets for all the wrong reasons. Three people including the proprietor were picked up by police for allegedly serving alcohol to a minor. The girl’s parents and other parents called the police on learning that their teenage kids had been drinking at the bar. The issue on who should shoulder the blame on the menace of teenage drinking and drug use has been discussed for long but no conclusion has been made yet. The blame is steadily being shifted from the parents to bar owners to the teenagers themselves.
The New Times
Collins Mwai