Residents of Kirima area in Naivasha on Friday held a peacefull demonstration accusing police of allowing illicit brewers to secretly operate.
They called on the county commissioner to intervene over the issue arguing that police bribery was the order of the day among officers at the local AP camp.
The demonstration is said to have been triggered by a recent case where a middle-aged man who was on a drinking spree at a famous illicit brew den at the Kirima shopping centre was on Wednesday morning found on the banks of River Karati dead.
They took up to the centre, raided the den and destroyed more than 100 litres of chang'aa before frogmarching the owner to Naivasha police station.
"Our husbands and sons are too much into drinking that we have been left fending for ourselves. Enough is enough and we want all the AP officers at the Kirima AP post to be transferred because they are colliding with these brewers," Elizabeth Webi said.
Naivasha police boss Titus Munyoki said the body of the deceased had been retrieved and taken to Naivasha hospital morgue awaiting a postmortem to ascertain the cause of the death.
"Let the common mwananchi learn to use the right protocol when handling such cases because nobody has evidence that the deceased succumbed after consumption of second generation alcohol, though let them be patient as we investigate the matter," he said.