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Government launch countrywide crackdown of shisha dens

Persons trading in the business of selling shisha in any local joint in the country and earning profits have their days numbered.

The government has issued a stern warning, and soon, you may be a statistic among that spending quality time behind Kenyan cells as a crackdown involving different Government agencies is to be instituted.

Public health and professional standards PS Mary Muthoni says the ministry of health is thoroughly concerned with the sales and consumption of the product that not only harms the primary consumers, but also secondary consumers, putting both at risk.

Speaking in Murang’a during community health promoters’ sensitization and training workshop at the Mahuti Catholic Church, PS Muthoni said there was a larking danger in the tobacco product, whose importation, distribution, sale and consumption is prohibited in the country.

In December 2024, the Court of Appeal affirmed a decision of the high court, banning shisha uptake in the country, thus any person caught selling or distributing would be attracting a hefty fine, courtesy of the court.

According to PS Muthoni, a multi-agency team, comprising of key stakeholders in health and security are in the final stages of launching a nationwide campaign that will nab key personalities involved in the illicit trade.

The crackdown will be launched countrywide simultaneously as county security teams are also heavily involved.

PS Muthoni, in whose docket the Community Health Promoters (CHPs)lie, says ongoing CHP trainings will involve effects of tobacco use to society, as well as training on emerging tobacco use trends.

She says there lies a danger is school going children immersing themselves in tobacco usage without parents knowing due to changes in the packaging

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The crackdown to start anytime will also target products that are not well labelled, especially on the effects they cause to the user.

 

 

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