Murang'a women longing for warm beds storm alcohol den, flush out hubbies

The angry women decided to form a vigilante group to crack down on dens selling illicit brew According to the women, their husbands couldn’t sire kids due to the illegal brew and they threatened to look for kids elsewhere

There was free for all drama at a Mwirua village in Gaturi area, Murang’a County when a group of women raided a secret drinking den and violently disbanded the merry their husbands were making.

Following the re-emergence of illicit brews in the area, the women, tired of calling upon authorities to curb the menace, came together and formed a vigilante group that has been going around fighting the brews.

The women said their husbands are unable to sire kids and threatened to look elsewhere for the all-important seed. During the raid, the women complained that their men have abandoned them and their homes and now live at clandestine drinking dens where they drink from dawn to dusk.

In the ensuing protest after the raid, they claimed newly married types are the hardest hit, yet they should be the most active reproductive-wise.

“Walk across this village, you will not see a pregnant woman. Newly married woman are the ones suffering most,” yelled a protester, insisting that they need more children.

Another one claimed she separated from her husband two years ago because of alcoholism and was calling upon the authorities to launch a campaign to crack down on illicit brewers.

Apparently, following government crackdown on illicit brews, some entrepreneurial locals have set up clandestine drinking dens, deeper in the locale where police hardly patrol.

In some places, brewers have turned their houses into secret drinking dens, where they lock up drunks as they make merry. Reportedly, one such sly operator, is a certain Mary.

She relocated to the rural area, following the police crackdown in the nearby town where she had a bar and turned one of the rooms in her house into a drinking den.

To avoid her cover being blown up, Mary has been operating her business from seven in the evening. However, last Wednesday evening was end of the road for her, after the women’s vigilante group, acting on a tip off, stormed her home and flushed out their drunk husbands.

During the protests, women could be heard hurling all manner of expletives at their ‘good for nothing husbands’, accusing them of laziness and running away from their matrimonial duties.

Murang’a East Assistant county commissioner Mr Kepha Marube, who ordered the drinking den’s owner arrested, read other clandestine illegal operators the riot act, promising them the full wrath of the law.

Mary is set to be arraigned at Murang’a law court, where she will be charged with contravening the law and operating illegally.