The National Authority for the Campaign Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NACADA) authorities carried out an operation on Friday night at shisha joints in Kilimani, Nairobi, where 25 individuals were jailed for cigarette smoking Shisha.
The officers carried out the operation on Friday night led by NACADA CEO Antony Omerikwa.
In the operation, 117 shisha bongs consisting of the names of consumers at a popular shisha joint were taken.
The joint in concern had actually formerly been shut down for offering shisha, a drug that has actually been prohibited because 2017.
Identified shisha bongs snatched by NACADA in Kilimani on Friday December 22, 2023.
Image
Those detained were discovered in little groups in different spaces within the joint smoking cigarettes shisha and chewing miraa.
“What I wish to inform operators is that the law is extremely clear. You understand what is legal and what is prohibited” the CEO cautioned.
The majority of those jailed smoking cigarettes shisha were vibrant males and females in pursuit of amazing night life with continuous celebrations
“In 2017, the federal government executed a restriction on shisha impacting both its sell and usage,” the CEO included.
Omerikwa included that a multi-agency group would continue with examinations on the case to make certain that the criminals are brought to book
Kenya put an overall restriction on the intake and usage of shisha, a water-pipe tobacco, mentioning health dangers related to it.
The then Cabinet Secretary for Health, Cleopa Mailu in a declaration in December 2017 prohibited the import, manufacture, sell, deal to offer, utilize, ad, promo, or circulation of Shisha in Kenya.
The World Health Organization has actually suggested that the smoke inhaled in a common one-hour shisha smoking cigarettes session amounts to breathing in smoke from as numerous as 100 cigarettes.
A collage of a Kenyan police vehicle (left) and blue & & traffic signals atop a lorry (right)
Image
DCI