Former National Authority for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NACADA) chairman John Muthutho has expressed concerns over the high number of deaths that result from illicit alcohol consumption in the country.
Mututho says annually, 100,000 Kenyans die out of drinking the illegal alcoholic drinks.He further defended the infamous Mututho laws that regulate the times alcoholic selling joints can be allowed to operate saying they were meant to protect the consumer from the excessive consumption of alcohol that will turn to poison."The government through the ministry of health should educate residents that the body can take up to 8% of alcohol anything above that is poisonous to the body," said Mututho during a live interview at Citizen TV on Saturday.The former legislator further said Kenyans consume an average of 24 million litres of alcohol daily.He called for concerted efforts among all government agencies so as to step up fight against the illicit alcohol that at times its consumption turn tragic.Uasin Gishu county is among the counties that has been battling illicit alcohol most of which is alleged to be from the neighboring Uganda.