The Mountain Journal
Crackdown on illicit brews has continued within the neighbourhood of Nanyuki town, with police identifying notorious hideouts along the river banks.
During the midnight operations, the police raided banks of Kangaita and Likiii rivers where they recovered apparatus used in the illegal distillation, following the public outcry following the increased alcoholism among the youth.
In the operation, conducted in Kangaita village on Friday night the police using the intelligence collected from the community, disrupted a suspected chang’aa brewing den suspected to have been producing and storing illicit alcohol sold within the locality and beyond
Led by Nanyuki OCS Michael Ndirangu, the operation seized 63 twenty-litre plastic containers filled with kangara, estimated at 1,260 litres.
Laikipia East Police Commander Daniel Kitavi said the operations will continue as he encouraged the public to remain vigilant and embrace information sharing.
He said the brewers turned to the river banks as their safe havens after their former hideouts within the human settlement and bushes were mapped out and destroyed during the past raids.
At Likii river operation on Thursday night, six 100-litre metallic drums, six jikos, six aluminium sufurias that the brewers that the clandestine merchants used in the preparation of the illicit brews were recovered and destroyed at the scene.
Kitavi said, “ We netted 12 plastic drums, containing 2,520 litres of Kangara and 100 litres of chang’aa which were ready for the market and which the team destroyed.”
