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Unread speech for a neighbour who died from too much drink

Let us confront the fallacy that reducing alcohol supply will reduce demand. If this was true, how then does Kenya - where alcohol is sold from behind metal-grilled cages, drink more alcohol than Uganda. [iStockphoto]

Friends, Kenyans, countrymen, lend me your ears.

A pharmacist neighbour of ours has died. He was a good man, a good husband, a good father and a good drinking mate at our estate's local.

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