The survey, a collaborative surveillance project with the United States Centres for Disease Control (CDC), ranks Kenya among countries with the highest level of bullying. At the national level, bullying in schools in Kenya stands at 57 per cent for students who are bullied on one or more days in a month. Surprisingly, bullying intensity in Kenya has no gender preferences, as the vice is also widespread among adolescent female students. “In many countries, bullying has been associated with more serious violent behaviours, such as weapon carrying, frequent fighting, verbal and physical abuse and coercion,” says Brown. According to a study conducted by David Ndetei, a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Nairobi, bullying is more prevalent in national schools than other categories of schools.

Source: Standard Digital March 10, 2017 20:26 UTC