Nyamira County Commissioner Josephine Onunga has put brewers of outlawed liquor on notice over continued business and has vowed to tirelessly deal with the vice until they change to other business.
Speaking in her office Tuesday, Mrs Onunga congratulated the administration officers for taking the war to the villages where the illicit liquor is brewed following the president’s directive to end the business.
The operation is aimed at bringing down to zero cases of alcoholism in the society which has been the main cause of poverty, family breakages and insecurity incidences.
According to Mrs Onunga, the operation so far is yielding fruits and thousands of litres of illicit brew has been destroyed and the brewers or people found at the drinking dens fined not less than Sh30,000.
She said her officers have made good use of information they receive from local residents and people of god will on the illicit brew hot spots. This has seen over 100 brewing homestead raided in the past one week and over 100,000 litres of chang’aa destroyed.
“We are not sliding back in this war against illicit brew and we will stop at nothing to ensure that we stamp out the brewing from amongst ours locals this is a war we must win as the government,” said the tough taking county commissioner.
She, however, advised the brewers to instead divert the huge amount of money they invest on the illegal liquor to other productive and fair income generating businesses.
“Why can’t these people start other businesses like selling grains, start chamas or table banking to better their lives genuinely? The must change from this unauthorised brewing and think of something more useful to do,” she said.
The cabinet secretary for Security, Joseph Nkaissery, had earlier on asked the county administration to completely finish the brewing and selling of chang’aa.