Fight against illicit brews gain momentum

Murang’a, Wednesday April 26, 2023

K.N.A By Florence Kinyua

The fight against illicit brews highly prevalent in central Kenya seems to be gaining momentum with local and administrative leaders up in arms against the menace.

This is in line with the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua sentiments and orders when he visited the central region a month ago whereby he declared war on illicit brews and second generation alcohol trade in central Kenya.

Kangema Member of Parliament Peter Kihungi while speaking in Iyego on Tuesday called on residents to join in the war against illicit liquor that he lamented threatened to wipe out a generation.

“We need to give our young men a chance to grow in healthy environments so that they will be able to bring up their own families in future,” Kihungi said.

“But if we keep encouraging and perpetrating the illicit brew trade, the moral fabric is  slowly decaying and all the young men and women left will spend all their economically viable years in illicit brew dens,” he added.

The legislator further urged parents and guardians to talk to their children especially now that they are on holiday to prevent them from being lured into alcohol and drugs.

At the same time Iyego assistant County Commissioner Allan Oruko while affirming his commitment on the fight against illicit brews called on residents to volunteer information on the dealers who live amongst them.

The information, he said, will be treated with utmost confidence and action taken against the traders and manufacturers.

 The ACC decried that some substances that are used in manufacturing the brews are known to cause impotence in men which is tragic as the entire generation risked being wiped out.

“The illicit brews are detrimental to the growth and development of our society considering most of the youths are no longer productive,” he said

Courtesy K.N.A