PMPS;
JUNE 12, 2011.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga today asked police and the provincial administration to get ruthless with people selling lethal drinks that are killing people across the country.
Speaking in Banana, Kiambu County at a funeral of one of those who died after consuming a local brew, the PM said merchants of death were selling poison to the people in the name of alcohol.
He asked police to deal with those selling such brews as dealers in poison.
The PM said police should invoke laws dealing with sale of poison in dealing with such vendors.
Mr Odinga said alcoholism and drug and substance abuse is becoming a national catastrophe and unless police swiftly and firmly, lives will continue to be lost.
He said the demographic profile of abusers is also changing, with more women and youth are increasingly joining drug and substance abuse.
He ordered police to close all licensed bars that are known to be dealing in the lethal drinks and challenged residents to stop taking alcohol altogether is it only leads to death.
The PM said what is killing people in many places is strictly not alcohol but poison being sold under labels of licensed alcoholic drinks.
“Laws exist, with severe penalties for those who supply the dangerous substances. But the merchants of death are taking advantage of loopholes and corruption in our policing,” he said.
The PM was accompanied to by MP Mr Stanley Githunguri and former Attorney General Mr Charles Njonjo.
He later visited Githiga village also in Kiambu, where a similar brew claimed three lives earlier today.
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JUNE 12, 2011.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga today asked police and the provincial administration to get ruthless with people selling lethal drinks that are killing people across the country.
Speaking in Banana, Kiambu County at a funeral of one of those who died after consuming a local brew, the PM said merchants of death were selling poison to the people in the name of alcohol.
He asked police to deal with those selling such brews as dealers in poison.
The PM said police should invoke laws dealing with sale of poison in dealing with such vendors.
Mr Odinga said alcoholism and drug and substance abuse is becoming a national catastrophe and unless police swiftly and firmly, lives will continue to be lost.
He said the demographic profile of abusers is also changing, with more women and youth are increasingly joining drug and substance abuse.
He ordered police to close all licensed bars that are known to be dealing in the lethal drinks and challenged residents to stop taking alcohol altogether is it only leads to death.
The PM said what is killing people in many places is strictly not alcohol but poison being sold under labels of licensed alcoholic drinks.
“Laws exist, with severe penalties for those who supply the dangerous substances. But the merchants of death are taking advantage of loopholes and corruption in our policing,” he said.
The PM was accompanied to by MP Mr Stanley Githunguri and former Attorney General Mr Charles Njonjo.
He later visited Githiga village also in Kiambu, where a similar brew claimed three lives earlier today.
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