Nyandarua County Woman Representative Faith Gitau has called for a scaled-up fight on the sale and consumption of illicit brews and drugs among the youth in Central Kenya.

The Woman Representative cited the need to go for the source of the products to disable the supply chain saying this will help deal with the problem once and for all.

The MP complained that heavy drinking of the brews had turned many young people into sickly cabbages and that this trend sounded the death knell for the next generation.

She emphasised that she would support Vice President Rigathi Gachagua in his fight against the beer problem and urged Kenyans to work with government organisations to combat the vice.

“We cannot allow our future generation to get lost. I welcome the deputy president’s directive of fighting the alcoholic menace and I want to also ask the Nyandarua governor to revoke and vet afresh liquor business operators so that we can fight this menace,” she said.

Further, she has urged Nyandarua Governor Dr Kiairie Badilisha to stop issuing more licenses to businesspeople operating bars, wines and spirit outlets, saying that this is one of the steps to dealing with the problem.

She was speaking at Mawingu and Mubau villages in the Kipipiri constituency when she distributed relief food to hunger-stricken families in the area.

Residents claimed that chiefs and their assistants were aware of individuals involved in the illicit brew trade and now want the government to firmly deal with them.

Some lamented that their sons have been adversely affected by the vices which have also led to high poverty levels among families in the area as they spent family income to seek medical care.