MP Launches counselling initiative for illicit brewers in Nakuru

Police from Bahati police station have been blamed by Bahati member of parliament Onesmus Kimani Ngunjiri.
Ngunjiri is blaming the law enforcers for over-reacting and lack of use of counseling skills and psychological knowledge when dealing with illicit brewers.

Njunguri who spoke over the weekend at Menengai hill secondary school in Kirima, noted that the police in Bahati do not give counseling to those who are caught up in brewing but instead they take bribe and the vicious circle of poverty continues.

“I want to put the police on notice and encourage them to give counseling to illicit brewers and drinkers so as to change their lives”. Said Njunguri.

He was addressing a group of 30 people from the area who were changaa brewers and drinkers but after counseling was done to them they abandoned the chang’aa activity.

Monicah Nyambura, a mother of 7 who brew chang’aa to the residents got counseling from Ngunjiri and helped the members to become law abiding citizens.

“We are happy for the Kimani Ngunjiri counseling initiative which helped me leave the chang’aa business now I am a farmer and y children are in school despite the odd days when I could not educate my children”, says Monicah.

Monicah has benefited from the counseling and it is this that has made her 24 year old son get into the university after getting an A plain in KCSE last year.
The abandoned drinkers engage in a merry-go-around chama which gives members Kshs.4,000 every month.

Kimani thanked the group and promised to help them so that they can be good examples from Bahati constituency and Nakuru county at large.

The group which operates 3 incubators, has got milk goats and arc in the process of purchasing a land. Kimani gave the group 6 milk goats, added them incubator and urged them to seek Uwezo funds.