Alcoholism is a strong disease that has held so many productive humans hostage to the bottle whose bond is a war that many drinking nations are facing and wishing they could eradicate completely following worse consequences reports.
After assuming office,Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu, in a bid to help the many youths addicted to alcoholism, started a county alcoholic addict’s rehabilitation programme called “Kaa Sober” on February 4, 2018.
Waititu has issued over Sh 100 million to over 5,000 recovering alcohol addicts as a sendoff package bringing the one year ‘Kaa sober’ program to a climax. 5,122 youth graduated on Tuesday with three-month short technical courses, offered in the county polytechnics.
The program has, since inception, cost the county close to Sh1 billion. “The program has been costly as the county has been spending about Sh2 million a day,” said Waititu as he handed out certificates of completion at Ndumberi grounds in Kiambu town.
The program, which engaged youths in casual labour in return for daily wages, started off with 100 youths and illicit brew dealers from Makwa and Gatukuyu villages in Gatundu North, who were fed up with drinking and wanted to change.
They cleared bushes, collected garbage, unclogged trenches and drainage systems, and raided and destroyed illicit brew dens in their villages. In return, each addict has been getting Sh400 a day, with Sh100 set aside for breakfast