Nyali MP Hezron Awiti
has demanded to know who protects drug peddlers who have continued with their
illicit trade in his constituency..
“I am surprised that
in spite of all the warnings and frequent arrests of drug peddlers, the trade and
consumption is still high. In some areas of my constituency, I come across
people who are selling the substance in the open, an indication that the
peddlers have powerful godfathers who always bail them out from police cells.
And this could be the reason why they don’t care about being arrested,”
lamented Awiti.
He called for decisive
and stringent action to be taken against those behind the menace that has
ruined the lives of many youth that have become zombies who are ot be productive in the society. He said
drug lords must be confronted headon by the government by naming and shaming,
and prosecutiong them.
The MP asked Mombasa
county commissioner Nelson Marwa to graduate from warnings and enforce arrests
of drug mafia who have taken the Coastal city by storm holding it hostage.
“The county
commissioner has been giving warnings to drug dealers but we don’t see them
feeling the heat of his warnings. We now want him to facilitate the actual
arrest of the drug dealers because what we have seen in the past is the arrest
of the small petty drug peddlers which doesn’t make any impact on the vice,” he
said
The
legislator warned that unless the drug mafia are dismantled, they would become
so powerful as to want to rule the country by sponsoring one of their own.
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