Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says that mothers are decrying the rate at which their children and husbands have been affected by the drug and alcohol epidemic raving through the mount kenya region.

gachagua says that he is embarrassed by the words that women have told him. Adding that the youths are finished, and they are so drunk and pass out on the floor instead of going to sleep on their beds.

PHOTO | COURTESY Rigathi Gachagua

The second head of state said that classrooms in the central region are empty due to the lack of children due to the low birthrates.

While addressing a gathering in Nyeri to discuss the problem of the consumption of illegal brews, Gachagua stated that the government would implement systems and tactics to terminate the threat beginning in the Central area and that it would set the standard for the rest of the nation.

"After this meeting, it will not be business as usual, we must do the right thing, we must implement the law, and we must live up to the oath of office. We can not be part of the criminal syndicate that is selling drugs to our children," Gachagua said.

He argued that instead of working with drug dealers, police officers and chiefs should focus on doing their jobs to eliminate the threat.

Gachagua said that it is impossible for people tasked with eradicating the threat to be assisting drug dealers. 

PHOTO | COURTESY Rigathi Gachagua

He said that since the issue has gotten attention at the highest levels of government, anyone standing in the way of the government dealing with the threat must yield.

 By coming to collect commissions and tokens from drug dealers once a week, he claimed that one method to undermine the president was to join forces with those who sell drugs and defend the alcohol that kills our people.