Former Naivasha MP John Mututho has said that the crackdown that was meted on Mungiki adherents in Central Kenya is to blame for the increased alcoholism.
Mututho said the security approach to the Mungiki menace was wrong and left a deeper problem.
“Why you see so many Kikuyu young men coming to drink, it is because there was this Mungiki problem and anybody who was not drunk was said to be Mungiki. So people had to find a way of intoxicating themselves to escape the wrath of the Kwekwe squad,” Mututho said.
The former Nacada chair said police were targeting any young man who was sober or sniffing tobacco.
“So you find a lot of young men were forced into this habit because of bad security decision was taken by somebody. That as we are fighting Mungiki the key indicator should be sniffing tobacco and anybody who is not drunk. And that is where we went wrong,” he added.
The Molo-born politician recently warned drug peddlers in Turi when he attended a burial in his rural village.
“Our young men are being destroyed by one man selling alcohol, I want to warn him to close businesses or come to face me,” he said.
Mututho was born in Turi, Molo where he attended St Brendan's primary school before advancing to his secondary.
He then ventured into business in Naivasha.