{"id":919131,"date":"2022-01-24T11:41:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/24\/six-employees-seized-as-police-raid-counterfeit-liquor-distillery\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:41:13","slug":"six-employees-seized-as-police-raid-counterfeit-liquor-distillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/six-employees-seized-as-police-raid-counterfeit-liquor-distillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Six employees seized as police raid counterfeit liquor distillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ipcryhg2udqrgbuz61ee75dd09a6e.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>Naivasha OCPD Samuel Waweru examines some of the counterfeit second-generation brew recovered from an unlicensed factory in Naivasha.<\/strong> [Antony Gitonga, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">Police\u00a0in Naivasha have recovered counterfeit liquor worth thousands of shillings and arrested\u00a0six\u00a0suspects behind the business.\n<\/p>\n<p>During the sting operation in the sprawling Karagita estate, the officers managed to recover assorted liquor belonging to various companies. <\/p>\n<p>The raid follows complaints from licensed brewers within Nakuru County.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to Simon Macharia, Zheng Hong Limited\u2019s\u00a0marketing manager, the company has been incurring huge losses every year due to counterfeits.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ogni114ZBco\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Naivasha police arrest six suspects working in illicit liquor company\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogni114ZBco?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>He said they were tipped off by members of the public over the illegal production of the counterfeit liquor in Naivasha.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe informed\u00a0police\u00a0and KRA officers and on raiding the premises, we found several workers manufacturing fake the alcohol using our name,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Macharia termed the conditions within the premises as poor, noting that the products were a health risk to unsuspecting consumers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the press at the scene, he said such businesses were on the rise in the county and challenged the county government to intervene.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are losing thousands of shillings every day as the market is flooded with counterfeit products,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s security manager Joseph Kahura said Nakuru County was among the counties where the counterfeit liquor business was thriving.\n<\/p>\n<p>He urged the county government to act terming the brewing conditions as pathetic and a health hazard to consumers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose involved in the production of counterfeit products are making more cash than the licensed owners and this is very unfair,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on phone, Naivasha\u00a0police\u00a0boss Samuel Waweru confirmed the arrests and recovery of the goods, adding that the suspects would be arraigned in court and charged with various charges.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast month we raided two illegal factories involved in the production of counterfeit products and this operation will go on until we reinstate sanity in the liquor sector,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of months, over ten people have died in parts of Nakuru after drinking illicit brew that had been laced with poisonous substances.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"justify-content-start\">\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nCounterfeit Liquour<br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<button class=\"tags-btn mr-4 mb-3 load-more\"><br \/>\nNaivasha<br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001435382\/six-employees-seized-as-police-raid-counterfeit-liquor-distillery\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naivasha OCPD Samuel Waweru examines some of the counterfeit second-generation brew recovered from an unlicensed factory in Naivasha. [Antony Gitonga, Standard] Police\u00a0in Naivasha have recovered counterfeit liquor worth thousands of shillings and arrested\u00a0six\u00a0suspects behind the business. During the sting operation in the sprawling Karagita estate, the officers managed to recover assorted liquor belonging to various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}