Okay good people, let's focus here. This thread is almost mutating and we really don't want it to become one of those epic duels pitting @hambuglar against @alphadoti and @mukiri.

Methinks Mr.mututho is a disturbed mind. His hatred of alcohol is almost pathological. Could he be having a painful experience ? Like loosing a child or close relative to alcohol ?

We all agree there is a drinking problem in the country, but you don't bring a guy who hates alcohol because of his personal issues. Now even teetotalers like myself have stopped taking him seriously.

Finally, the criminal case facing mututho is extremely serious. Its not a corruption case but a forgery case. The evidence is damning. The dude forged KRA receipts and claimed 42m from KNH. During the last hearing, a KRA official whose signature was forged testified and I would be scared if I were mututho.

May be therein lies the problem with our alcohol chief.

masukuma hyperbole is coming up with a law that gives police the right to enter my house and tell me what to drink, how to drink it, when to drink and even charge me for drinking.

If you remove the work drink from the above sentence and replace it with pray, the you will probably agree with me that Mututho shouldn't be anywhere near sober minded legislators. No pun intended.

Now you equating pray with drinking.
And you're complaining about 5 o'clock call for prayer, this is almost waking time for most people who go to bed early, not alcoholics who stagger home at 3pm. Before you ague with me in time, please read about successful people, check what time they wake up. Now here you're telling people they should not wake up early, they should drink alcohol until wee hours of the night and struggle with hangover at 10am.

And who said we won't use vehicles? What we're saying is majority of those who cause road accidents are under the influence.

@alma I'm not agreeing with Mututho, but you see we are not seeing you condemning alcohol. Why don't you say, yes alcohol is not good but let's find better ways of making people drink responsibly?

Again can you tell us the benefits of this alcohol anyway? Just give us a comparison of its merits and demerits, honestly. I can only see disadvantages of alcohol.

Tell me I'm lying about the below proven effects of alcohol:
1. Makes a person irresponsible in his actions. Is it a lie?
2. Makes a person aggressive and rough. Is it a lie.
3. Makes a driver cause accidents since he has no full control of himself. Is it a lie?
4. Reduces thinking ability and reasoning power. Is it a lie?
5. Crees headaches, hangovers, fatigue and weakness. That is no one who drinks whiskey so much can argue that he has not experience this with wife. I'd it a lie?
6. Affects lunges and kidneys. Is it a lie?
7. Makes one irresponsible to family, puting most of his time on drinking. Didn't we see central women demonstrating last yer about their husbands who have failed in their homes?
8. Makes one lose his job as performance goes lower and lower.

That is whythese things are strictly prohibited all over the world because of their bad effects on the individual, society and te nation.

@alma I can see you are fun of porn too, it's also harmful my friend. That's why Nrth Koea was tough about it. It's better to remove such a disease from the society, and what better way than targeting the producers!

He says he lost his own brother to alcohol and related health complications.

Meanwhile, does this law also prohibit all forms of advertisement of alcohol? Do we have a study on why 'Kenyans' have a drinking problem?

This is politics and politicians playing the revenue game with the masses, nothing more.