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How innovation can help win the fight against illicit alcohol
Chang'aa brewers appear to have become innovative, using pits along river banks to prepare illicit liquor. Security officers in Nanyuki Town, Laikipia County found five containers with kangara in dug out pits along the banks of River Likii.
Photo credit: Mwangi Ndirangu I Nation Media Group
The flurry of activities that followed the death of at least 17 people in Kangai, Kirinyaga, after consuming illicit brew has died down.
The police who were alleged to have allowed the impounded alcohol to be sneaked back were transferred, people were arrested and charged, and irate villagers burnt the bar where the drink was sold.
