Law enforcers in Nyamira County have terribly failed to crackdown on illicit brews, Seventh Day pastor has said.
Pastor Laurence Mokua of Ramba SDA Church said they were concerned with the apathy among the chiefs and the police and their reluctance to fight the vice.
Speaking during a burial yesterday evening in Ramba area in Bogoichora ward, he said that during Christmas and New Year eve, several people including school children messed up with illicit drinks, some of whom were found lying unconscious by the roads side.
“We have seen these law enforcers protecting the brewers and sellers from whom they collect protection fees of which the government should ensure that stops,” Mokua said.
In Nyamira town, a police swoop during New Year nabbed over 30 school students who were believed to have consumed third generation spirits and engaged in an orgy of sex after cheating their parents that they were going out for night prayers.
The pastor in a statement to the press claimed that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s efforts to fight the illicit brews had achieved little results as the tempo of consumption of the drinks had not changed much in the county.
“We still have known Chang’aa dens and bars selling third generation liquor yet the police and chiefs are doing very little to stop them. Worst of all, some of the law enforces are protecting the culprits after taking weekly protection fees,” he said.