Nairobi police commander Augustine Nthumbi has affirmed that the cleaning of city streets, markets by curfew violators will continue, warning bar owners and their patrons against defying President Uhuru Kenyatta’s closure order.
According to Nthumbi, bar owners will lose their licenses while the defaulters will be charged for defying orders barring consumption of alcoholic drinks in public.
He said, “And we have done it in the previous few days. We break in and arrest all the people in there. We are grateful that the judiciary has been helping us on that."
“Around 74 people were sentenced under a community service order and that is where the Nairobi Metropolitan Service came in and assigned them to clean city streets and markets for a day,” added Nthumbi.
The police chief noted that some clubs are locking patrons inside as they drink alcohol, thereby contravening the president’s order aimed at preventing the spread of the third wave of Covid-19.
He added that to ensure bars remain closed and those found in operation have their licenses confiscated, his officers are monitoring them.
Nthumbi said, “We are going to the bars and listening from outside to confirm that there are no people inside. There is no escape. We are everywhere.”
According to him, surveillance in Nairobi has been heightened to ensure total compliance with the 8pm-to 4am curfew and reduce movements at night.
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