More than 22,500 litres of illicit brew have been destroyed in Boochi Chache location in Gucha, Kisii County in a period of one month.
Kisii County Commissioner Tom Anjere said this has been successful due to collaboration between security agents and local administration that included chiefs and urged them to ensure that they do not relent until the outlawed brew is done away with entirely in the region.
He urged the administrators to work closely with community policing and members of the public to get information about whoever is in this illicit business. He insists that his mission is to do away with illicit brew in the region
Kisii County Commander Charles Kases has already launched an operation to curb the illegal business.
Kases says he, together with chiefs from various locations, are on a mission to eradicate illicit brew within the county.
Speaking with Kenya News Agency, Boochi Chache chief Robert Isoe says no single person is brewing illicit brew in his location. Isoe asserts that this achievement has been attained after several years of raiding brewing dens and smoking out culprits from their hideouts.
Despite the strides made to halt the trade, Isoe says small quantities of the illicit brew still find their way into the area. He admits that some traders still buy the banned alcohol from the neighbouring villages. The chief says he has put the peddlers on his radar and will pounce on them soon.
“Currently it is almost impossible to catch someone with illicit brew. Nowadays they package the prohibited alcohol in small quantities that are not easy to trace,” says Isoe.
Isoe claims that illicit brew harms the community. Adding that imbibing the illicit brew makes people unproductive and unable to engage in viable economic activities.
Gucha Probation Officer Elijah Omanga, said intoxication forms the basis of the many immoral incidents reported in the area.
With the demolition of brewing dens in Boochi Chache, Omanga states that the number of cases involving drunkenness has downsized remarkably.
By Vincent Ombati and Clinton Ng’ielah
