The use of alcohol in Kisii County has become a menace in the recent days.
Alcohol has become readily available in all localities and villages to an extent of the content being sold to some parts of the Kisii town especially at the Kisii bus terminus.
Sources revealed that some individuals sell alcohol on the basis of selling items, better known as malimali, but in the real sense, under their items, they sell the brew to their known customers with or without the consent of the police despite the fact that there is a police patrol base within the Kisii main bus terminuses.
In an interview with one of the residents from Kiogoro village, the residents said that despite the ban of using illicit brews in the country, alcohol is still sold and consumed in high amounts where the silent use is broken in a broad daylight when a drunk fellow is spotted staggering along the way using abusive language and others even ending up in ditches and along the roads overwhelmed by the product.
The fight against alcohol still remains a problem as the residents claim that the administration authorities such as the local chiefs and their assistants move around the homesteads of the brewers and collect the monthly charges which they say has encouraged the production and consumption to continue in Kisii.
The concerned residents have, therefore, urged the county government to support the national government in fighting the drinking problem.