Is the law limiting drinking hours still in force?

Whenever I tour Nairobi County, precisely Huruma estate, I often wonder whether Mututho law still holds.

It seems it has been completely forgotten and bar owners operate unperturbed.

Back to my story, it is on a Monday noon and bartenders are busy serving customers.

A police van then comes from nowhere and stops near one of the clubs, which by now has loud music oblivious of the law that regulates and restricts drinking hours.

I am engrossed to the scene because I am convinced that the man operating the bar must be arrested and prosecuted in a court of law for operating outside the stipulated time. To my dismay, the officers walk out of the bar wearing toothy smiles.

They leave just like that. I am left asking myself barrage of questions. Why did they not arrest the bar operator?

Is it because they were given something small? How comes even police officers are not concerned with Mututho law?

Or is today a national holiday? I console myself; maybe Mututho law was scraped! The club is opened the whole day.

Back to the main point, the brainchild behind Mututho law is the chairman of the National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug abuse.

The law limits drinking hours and regulates consumption of alcohol. It prohibits the selling of alcohol before 5pm on weekdays and after 11pm.

However, Kenyans do not adhere to the law since most of clubs in towns are opened the whole day.

Police officers who are mandated to ensure the law is implemented appear to be condoning those who break it.

I am urging the government and other State agencies to ensure this law is brought back to force and any offender brought to book.

Let us not make laws which we do not abide by.