Cheap liquor back in the villages

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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