{"id":12875,"date":"2024-03-14T15:03:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/14\/kioni-led-jubilee-faction-to-sue-govt-for-ordering-bar-closures-in-illicit-brew-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:03:31","slug":"kioni-led-jubilee-faction-to-sue-govt-for-ordering-bar-closures-in-illicit-brew-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kioni-led-jubilee-faction-to-sue-govt-for-ordering-bar-closures-in-illicit-brew-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kioni-led Jubilee faction to sue govt for ordering bar closures in illicit brew crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, March 14 \u2013 The Jeremiah Kioni-led Jubille Party faction has vowed to sue the government for forcing bar closures in its war against illicit brew and is seeking damages for breach of contract and compensation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kioni said that all bars were licensed and invested heavily before the closure, with some borrowing money for licensing and stocking inventory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to sue the government for breach of contract and for compensation regarding the closing of bars,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>He criticized the government for not consulting county governments and noted the economic repercussions that come with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you close a bar it goes down with eateries, butcheries, boda-boda riders and mama mbogas, hence corrupting the whole ecosystem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kioni questioned the selective approval of certain alcoholic beverages while others are labeled as \u201ckiller drinks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecond generated brews like Muratina and Mnazi have been allowed yet the other drinks are being denoted killer drinks yet they have been approved by KEBS,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The closure directive followed a government order for public officers owning bars to shut them down or resign.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0 is after\u00a0 the government issued a directive banning\u00a0government\u00a0officials from running bars.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 20 people died in\u00a0 Kirinyaga after consuming ethanol-laced alcohol\u00a0 and the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua highlighted the involvement of government officials in the bar business as contributing to alcohol-related problems.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, March 14 \u2013 The Jeremiah Kioni-led Jubille Party faction has vowed to sue the government for forcing bar closures in its war against illicit brew and is seeking damages for breach of contract and compensation. Kioni said that all bars were licensed and invested heavily before the closure, with some borrowing money for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}