Residents in Rongai sub-county in Nakuru have called on the Kavuludi-led National Police Service Commission to transfer long-serving police officers from the region to help fight illicit brews.
According to the majority of residents who spoke to Hivisasa.com, some officers had been in the area for a long period and were subjected to bribes from local brewers, making it hard to end the menace in the area.
“Some of these officers have overstayed here and have become used to our day to day activities. It’s like arresting you own brother,” noted Seth Ogidi, Rongai town residents chairperson, adding that some of the officers owned the illicit brew dens.
He called on the commission chairperson, Johnston Kavuludi, to act fast and help regain sobriety in the area.
“We are not against their work rather are we expressing our dissatisfaction with their service, we simply want a better Rongai for our children and investors,” Ogidi noted.
He was for the idea of a rotational kind of approach, arguing that officers who had won the war in their respective stations should be brought to more resistible areas to help contain the unwanted brew.
The residents also decried the rise of insecurity in the area saying that the officers had failed to come with a lasting solution that will stop the wave of crime.
Dubbed ‘the business of death’, the fight against illicit brew was officially launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta to help fight illegal alcohol in the country.