{"id":130788,"date":"2026-02-12T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/traders-want-senate-to-shelf-tobacco-bill-for-public-participation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T08:02:44","slug":"traders-want-senate-to-shelf-tobacco-bill-for-public-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/traders-want-senate-to-shelf-tobacco-bill-for-public-participation\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders want Senate to shelf Tobacco Bill for public participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Traders under Bars, Hotels, and Liquor Traders Association of Kenya (BAHLITA),\u00a0want the\u00a0Senate to\u00a0stop\u00a0further proceedings on a contentious tobacco bill\u00a0to\u00a0allow for broader consultations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This follows strong\u00a0opposition\u00a0by traders in Mombasa and Eldoret over the past week, calling for reconsideration of\u00a0some provisions contained in the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Wednesday in Nakuru, BAHLITA Secretary General, Boniface Gachoka, faulted the Senate for allegedly failing to conduct wider public consultations on the bill, drawing widespread backlash.<\/p>\n<p>He also faulted the proposal to ban flavours in nicotine products, saying it would only fuel the illicit trade of the same products as consumers seek to find alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Gachoka\u00a0called on the Senate to halt proceedings on the bill,\u00a0to allow time to address their reservations on sections of the proposed law.<\/p>\n<p>The Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill of 2024 is sponsored by ODM nominated Senator, Catherine Mumma, to furter regulate the production, sale, advertisement and smoking of nicotine products, including the use of nicotine pouches and vapes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/traders-want-senate-to-shelf-tobacco-bill-for-public-participation\/\">Traders want Senate to shelf Tobacco Bill for public participation<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traders under Bars, Hotels, and Liquor Traders Association of Kenya (BAHLITA),\u00a0want the\u00a0Senate to\u00a0stop\u00a0further proceedings on a contentious tobacco bill\u00a0to\u00a0allow for broader consultations. This follows strong\u00a0opposition\u00a0by traders in Mombasa and Eldoret over the past week, calling for reconsideration of\u00a0some provisions contained in the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill of 2024. Speaking on Wednesday in Nakuru, BAHLITA Secretary [&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-130788","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\/130788","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=130788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}