County Bans Parties and Night Vigil Gathering.
County Bans Parties and Night Vigil Gathering: Machakos county commissioner Josephine Ouko has banned Disco matanga in the region underscoring that no night vigil gatherings will be allowed for whatever reasons.
She insisted that the above mentioned meetings should be conducted in broad day light to avoid theft, robberies, usage of illicit brew and narcotics
Notably, she banned parties usually conducted in New Year’s Eve maintaining only church meetings will be allowed in New Year’s Eve.
She stated, “Disco matangas have affected us. Those who know the effects have rejected them. I have heard what various leaders and men of the cloth have said. You have said that you want people to cross the year in church. Deputy county commissioners and your security teams, subcounty police commanders, the public have refused, they have said no,”
“People should go and celebrate New Year in church. So, please, this year, people should go cross the year in churches or where it’s allowed. If we want to hold celebrations of crossing the year, let’s cross it at day time in the open, where everybody is witnessing and not in darkness,” she added.
She further cited that things have changed unlike years back when these gathering had meaning and impact.
She stated, “I direct chiefs, all NGAO officials and entire county security team to get rid of disco matanga, and if it’s there, it shouldn’t be in the form it is now. It should be where church members gather to pray for the deceased’s family, no loud or live circular music at night, but prayers only,”
“We have so far destroyed 20, 000 litres of illicit brew. For the outlawed second generation liquor; 12,500 litres have been netted alongside 352 rolls of bhang, 31 brooms of bhang, 30 stones all amounting to 8,570 grams,” Ouko said.
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