Uasin Gishu County Commissioner Edison Nyale led other multi agency team where they impounded Ethanol in the outskirts of Eldoret town.
The head of Nacada in the North Rift region Nicholas Koskei said they have impounded many litres of illicit brew and will not sit down
Uasin Gishu commissioner Edson Nyale with other multiagency team addressing the media at Eldoret Police Station
By Jessica Nyaboke
According to Nyale he said these is the 5th consignment to be impounded in a span of 3 months said that that they will not allow the illicit brew to find its market in the county .
Speaking to the press at Eldoret Central Police Station the County Commissioner said the illicit Ethanol was found buried in a ditch by small children who were playing around Outspan in Sukunanga area .
He further said to that the second generation liquor is mixed with water then sold to innocent young Kenyans in universities which is very harmful to their health.
“It is indeed sad that the market target Youth who are in University at Near Annex area “complained the County Commissioner.
Since the elevation of Eldoret into a city status many businessmen engaging in the illegal selling of illicit brew have tried to reach the market in Eldoret adding that Police Officers are on High alert and will do everything possible to stop the vice.
The head of Nacada in the North Rift region Nicholas Koskei said they have impounded many litres of illicit brew and will not sit down and watch the lives of the children getting ruined .
Koskei said that the illicit Alcohol has affected the lives of the youths with effects like not taking a shower and loss interest in their education among other which is very sad for parents who have toiled hard in these tough economic times.
Last month Uasin Gishu County police have successfully
intercepted over 500 kilograms of bhang valued at approximately at sh
37 million in an operation carried out along the Eldoret-Webuye
highway.
The seized bhang was weighing 190 kilograms and was hidden in a lorry
and was labeled as biscuits in several carton boxes from Uganda
enroute to Mombasa through Eldoret City in Uasin Gishu County.
Interception of the illegal consignment is part of a well-coordinated
strategy by the police to tackle major trafficking networks in the
North Rift region after it emerged that perpetrators of the vice had
changed their tactics in their efforts to evade the long arm of the
law.
Police Commander Benjamin Mwanthin confirmed the last seizer of the
illegal consignment in an incident that occurred at Baharini area,
some five kilometres from Eldoret City along the busy Eldoret-Webuye
highway.
Also in police custody is the haul of seized bhang which will be used
as exhibit during the proceedings.
Mwanthi said that for the last few week’s police in the region have
made a major breakthrough in the fight against drug trafficking after
intercepting illegal consignments worth millions of shillings along
the busy highway.
“Investigations into the latest incident are ongoing to identify other
members of drug trafficking network operating in the region to bring
the vice which has become a major challenge to an end,” stressed
Mwanthi.
He revealed that drug trafficking along the busy highway has
improvised a new way of tracking the illegal consignment in the
disguise of transporting legal goods enroute to Mombasa.
The County police Commander warned that vehicles implicated in such
syndicate are going to be forfeited to the state.
“We have discovered that there are some cunning drivers who divert
their vehicles into trafficking drugs in exchange for good payments
and we are warning employers to be alert on such drivers. Owners of
long distance transport vehicles must evaluate their drivers before
engaging them to avert hiring cartels as they risk their vehicles
being surrendered to the state,” said Mwanthi.
Just last month, two suspects , a driver and his co-driver of a long
distance truck lorry were arrested while trafficking a consignment of
a sh 27 million bhang at the same spot from Uganda enroute to Likoni
in Mombasa.
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