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Clerics pray for rehabilitated alcoholics during a ceremony at Ihura stadium in Murang'a recently. [Photo: Mose Sammy/Standard]
The impact of the crackdown on second-generation alcoholic drinks that was ordered by President Uhuru Kenyatta has petered out. And now illicit brew dealers in the Mt Kenya counties are back in operation, five months after they were almost run out of business.
In Meru County, illicit brewing dens that offer a tipple from as early as 6am are rampant on the Majengo-Irinda road in Meru town.
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