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Nairobi \u2014 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has dismissed allegations by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua that the government is deliberately targeting the Mt. Kenya region with drugs by relaxing measures to curb their proliferation.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking during the launch of the Status of Drugs and Substance Use Among University Students in Kenya report, Murkomen stressed that drug and alcohol abuse is a national crisis that transcends political and ethnic lines.<\/p>\n He warned against…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has dismissed allegations by former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua that the government is deliberately targeting the Mt. Kenya region with drugs by relaxing measures to curb their proliferation. Speaking during the launch of the Status of Drugs and Substance Use Among University Students in Kenya report, Murkomen stressed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[5099,258,256,6949,36131,4688,430,36743,16514,44886,257,20917,254,7036,6853],"class_list":["post-191313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drug","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-localize","tag-menace","tag-murkomen","tag-news","tag-politicization","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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