KENYAN MERCHANTS OF DEATH

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It is common to encounter scenes of young men and women in a drunken stupor, some semi-comatose in filthy trenches, knocked out by lethal concoctions brewed by the ‘merchants of death’ who largely sell reinforced drinks, in kenyan rural & urban villages and shopping centres. An eyesore in Kenyan villages and towns.

They stagger on the pathways, some wet their clothes, while others mumble incoherently, the sum effect pointing at a pathetic picture of how men and women, who should be an example to their children, arrive home as zombies.

In some cases, the drunks are unable to separate day from night and clearly have little economic contribution to the livelihoods of those they are supposed to provide for. Yet, unless the directive given banning second-generation drinks is effective, unlike past ones, they are never short of watering holes.

So bad is the crisis of alcoholism that women particularly in Central Kenya have confronted the illegal brewers, whose deadly drinks are a threat to a generation, with young men lost to backstreet drinking dens.

Ravaged by the poisonous drinks, the young and old alike have either abandoned their families or are unable to marry, thrusting to the fore the problem racking society, which has now become a national shame.

On the back of the worsening crisis, top national and county government officials on 2nd July 2015 declared an all-out war on killer brews that have claimed the lives of hundreds and shattered families.

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