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Kenya declares total war on killer alcohol as crisis worsens

After spending the better part of the morning taking illicit brew at Kangemi Estate in Nyeri Thursday, this man fell on the roadside where he slept for hours

NAIROBI: Scenes of young men and women in a drunken stupor, some semi-comatose in filthy trenches, knocked out by lethal concoctions brewed by the ‘merchants of death’ who largely sell reinforced drinks, are now an eyesore in Kenyan villages and towns.

They stagger on the pathways, some wet their clothes, while others mumble incoherently, the sum effect pointing at a pathetic picture of how men and women, who should be an example to their children, arrive home as zombies.

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