Thika MP Alice Ng’ang’a has called on interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery to introduce liquor risk allowances to all the chiefs and their assistants.
This is to allegedly give them safe grounds and motivate them to fight illicit brews and crime.
The call comes after Makongeni Chief, Daniel Waiguru, was attacked by unknown people in Kiandutu slums on Saturday during a raid against illicit brews.
Waiguru is alleged to have been accompanied by his two assistants when he was attacked but they were lucky to escape without injuries.
According to Ng’ang’a, the raids are risky to the administrators as they are not armed and sometimes engage with people armed heavily. She added that the chiefs risk being attacked and murdered brutally by the brewers.
“These people are always armed and we need to arm the chiefs too or else give them a special allowance to motivate them to engage the brewers. It’s risky for them to conduct the raids,” Ng’ang’a said.
She added that police officers in Thika cannot always accompany the chiefs during the raids as they are engaging into patrolling the area where crime incidencts are increasingly on the rise.
Speaking at Thika PCEA Church after visiting the chief at his home, the legislator called upon her constituents to support the fight against brewing and inform the chiefs anytime they have information to make it easier for them to tame the incidences.