Illicit liquor is regaining entry into Mlolongo division several months after President Uhuru Kenyatta’s order to crack down on the businesses expired.
The area assistant county commissioner Mose said majority of the traders who were trading on illicit brew before implementation of the order in Mlolongo are back in business.
Mose who addressed the press at his office in Mlolongo town on Tuesday said the condemned traders were peddling second generation alcohol and illicit local brew that includes Chang’aa, Busaa and Kangara.
He said the culprits were taking advantage of commitment of security agents from the region who were busy handling other emerging security issues on a daily basis to engage in the trade.
Mose said his office had already laid down comprehensive strategies to conduct continuous crackdowns across the division to ensure all those engaged in the business are brought to book.
He said he is already aware of the brewing joints and cartels behind the business and therefore will soon curb the crime making sure all the traders close down shops.
Mose said drug and substance abuse was equally on the rise among youth in the region, a situation he argued poses security threat to the residents.
He said he was recently accompanied by administration police officers from the division to uproot hundreds of bhang bushes in a slum near Mlolongo town.
Mose warned the culprits to seize from engaging in the illicit businesses and instead get decent ways of earning their daily livelihoods and those of their families before the law catches up with them.