Matiang’i reads the riot act to administrators over illicit brews, drug abuse

Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr Fred Matiang'i.

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By  Ruth Mbula

What you need to know:

• He warned that each administrator will be held personally responsible for any illicit brews and defilement cases.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i has read the riot act to national government administrators who allow the sale of illicit brew as well as drugs and substance abuse in their jurisdiction.
Dr Matiang’i said the use of alcoholic and narcotic substances has contributed to the rise of defilement, rape, murder and other forms of crime in the society.

He warned that each administrator right from the county commissioner to the chiefs and their assistants will be held personally responsible for any illicit brews and defilement cases reported in their jurisdiction.
“Performance for county commissioners, chiefs and their assistants will be gauged on how thy tackle illicit brews and alcohol abuse in their jurisdiction. Their Key Performance Indicators(KPI) will largely depend on how they handle this societal issues,” said the CS. He spoke yesterday at Kebirigo High School after meeting chiefs and their assistants in Nyamira County.

Before the meeting with the chiefs, he met elected leaders at the county headquarters among them Governor John Nyagarama, Senator Okong’o Omogeni and Woman Rep Jerusha Momanyi.
He later met MCAs at the county assembly before leaving for a burial in Tombe.
President Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the chiefs on phone telling them to focus on their work. The CS said cases of defilement,  domestic violence and consumption of illicit brews and drugs had increased during the Covid-19 period.
He particularly took issue with his Nyamira backyard where he accused national government administrators of laxity in curbing the vices.