Bar owners ask prison department to close down bar over cheap liquor

BAHLITA national chairman Boniface Gachoka. [File, Standard]

A member of the Nakuru Assembly and the Bars, Hotels, and Liquor Traders Association (BAHLITA) have issued a one-week notice to the prison department to close down a bar it is operating in Naivasha town.

The parties have termed the new establishment as a threat to other bars, as liquor sourced from military barracks is sold at cheaper prices thus giving local traders unfair competition.