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Judah Ben-Hur |
March 11th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Children abusing drugs will be admitted into rehabilitation facilities instead of serving jail terms if Parliament passes a proposed law .
The Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Bill 2020, which proposes changes in the 1994 Act, seeks to slay the dragon by the head by focusing on drug traffickers as opposed to users.
“This young generation needs not be put in prison. This young generation needs to be put in rehabilitation centres so that immediately they recover from the menace, they can go back to school,” said Kisumu East MP Shakeel Shabbir.
Worrying trends of alcohol consumption in Nairobi Worrying trends of alcohol consumption in Nairobi
Nairobi Regional Commissioner Kangethe Thuku now says Nairobi is leading countrywide in illicit alcohol consumption by 17.5%.
According to Thuku his officers impunded 770 LITRES OF Busaa and Muratina ,4201 litres of chang’aa and 3315 litres of Kangara the raw material to manufacture chang’aa in Kasarani alone in different operations from January this year and perpetrators arrested.
Thuku says the trend is worrying.
He points at poverty as major cause of consumption of illicit brew adding that government is spending more funds to treat alcohol addicts in Nairobi and street families who are equally addicts.
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A field of marijuana at Kedong ranch in Naivasha where 14 suspects were arrested. [Courtesy[
Police on Thursday destroyed marijuana valued at Sh27 million and arrested 14 suspects weeding a field of the narcotic in Naivasha.
Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said the operation was conducted by a multi-agency team comprising of Anti-Narcotics detectives and police officers.
Police acting on a tip-off from members of the public pounced on the suspects weeding the more than one-acre field of bhang at Kedong ranch.
Detectives are investigating how the suspects managed to plant a whole acre of bhang and if there are other accomplices.
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A programme aimed at educating donkey owners on proper animal care has started bearing fruit.
For many years, a badly wounded donkey hauling an overloaded cart full of bags of rice was a common feature in the paddy fields of Mwea in Kirinyaga County.
Such scenes are becoming rare as donkey owners have adopted new ways of treating their animals following civic education.
The programme also looked into eradicating alcohol and substance abuse in the region.
“Bhang and alcohol abuse is quite common among donkey riders and there are so many other bad vices associated with them and these are the things the programme has addressed,” said Cyrus Gitonga, the Kirinyaga Donkey Owners Association chairperson.