MP calls for stiffer penalties for traders of killer drinks

Ainamoi MP Benjamin Langat will draft a bill to prescribe longer prison sentences and eliminate the option of fines for brewers and distributors of killer alcoholic drinks.

Mr Langat said the thirst for huge profits by unscrupulous traders had led them to add harmful chemicals to alcoholic drinks, in the process destroying the lives of many Kenyans. "The second generation alcoholic drinks are dangerous concoctions. The law has to be strengthened to deal with the situation," he said.