Kilifi begins enforcing ban on Muguka sale, use within county

County enforcement officers in Kilifi county on Saturday started enforcing the Executive Order issued Friday by Governor Gideon Mung'aro banning entry, transportation, distribution, sale and use of muguka within the county.

Mung'aro ordered all enforcement officers to ensure the directive is enforced in totality by dint of Executive Order No. 1 of 2024.

“In light of the above order, I therefore, with immediate effect, issue a directive to all the Kilifi County enforcement officers through the Directorate of Enforcement to ensure the order is enforced in totality,” Mung’aro said.

The order required all outlets, whether retail or wholesale, selling and/or distributing muguka within Kilifi be closed immediately and/or stop the sale of the stimulant and its products.

“County departments and their agencies are directed to enforce this order without exception,” the order reads in part.

Kilifi imposed the ban a day after the County Government of Mombasa instituted a similar action.

Both counties said henceforth, no motor vehicles carrying the products will be allowed entry into their jurisdictions.

“If you must do the muguka business, do it in the right place. We should not expose our children to such stimulants," Mombasa Governor Abdulswamad Nassir said on Thursday.