Thika chiefs and their assistants are set to commence on a motorcycle riding training funded by Thika Town legislator Alice Ng’ang’a on Monday.
According to the Thika Town Constituency Development Fund (CDF) chairman Ephraim Njihia, the local administrators will be provided with motorcycles in order to facilitate their work.
The MP, according to Njihia, is at pains with the deteriorating insecurity levels in Gachagi and Gathara slums and intends to work hand in hand with the administration to ensure her constituents are safe and secure.
The sale of llicit brew in these areas is alleged to be resurfacing and the brewers are said to have formed a cartel to keep off anyone who attempted to stop their trade.
Njihia cited an incident where the area chief and her assistants had to run for their lives when they were allegedly attacked by these brewers as they tried to arrest one of them.
"Their efforts are also being hindered by some rogue police officers who always alert these criminals whenever an operation to arrest illicit brewers is about to be undertaken," he lamented.
Njihia has attributed what he calls the neglect of the boy-child, as a major reason why the society was experiencing increase in crime and alcoholism among the youth.
He was speaking on Friday in his office in Thika town when he met with the area chiefs.