Administrator reveals generation gap looming as men turns to liquor, leaving women to shoulder family burden.
The Mountain Journal
Walking into many shopping centres in the rural and urban areas,
pictures of men lying in ditches, intoxicated features, revealing the coming
back of the cheap liquor.
In Karung’e locality in Mathioya, Murang’a women have taken up
the responsibility of going for their drunkard husbands and
sons from the market centres after they can not find their way home
after spending hours in the liquor outlets.
This was revealed on the eve of the new year when local
administration and the community leaders lectured the men and their
sons at Karung’e grounds in Gitugi ward on dangers brought by the increased
consumption of the brews.
The local chief Mrs Fresia Njeri Kihara regretted that the
liquor consumption was a major threat to the education sector as many of
the classrooms are likely to be converted for workshops for use by
learners in the vocation and training institutes.
She expressed the concern of low enrolment leading
to empty classrooms, when Ahadi Trust Executive Director Stanley Kamau
organized a men empowerment talk. The talk was for the males regardless of age
drawn from the villages of Ngutu, Karung’e and Kanjahi.
More than 400 men walked home with New Year gifts that
included packets of maize flour and chicken donated by Kamau.
The administrator regretted the neglect of the boy child who had
a majority fear of marriage following the example set in many of the
homes.
In the locality the five primary schools of Karung’e, Kanjahi,
Ngutu, Mihuti and Kirimiga have fewer pupils as compared to their capacity, she
observed.
“We are looking for the father figure for the majority of the
young men in the villages as our concern is the future of the schools as they
are half enrolled,” said the administrator.
Dr Kamau sent a warning to the individuals operating liquor
business that they should stop stocking the killer brews, following the wreck
caused in the villages.
“ It is a pity that our young men are not productive and
which is a national concern as the number of children in the villages in
Murang’a is reducing at a big margin. One day we shall be knocking the
doors of the outlets saying they should not be opened,” said the Ahadi
Trust executive director.
He said he will assist the first 15 youth who will get married
in the locality through a mass wedding.
“ I will facilitate the entire process as am disturbed
when men are ridiculed in the villages by the women,” said Kamau.
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