This archive report was first published on 6 May 2020.
Published on May 6, 2020, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has expressed concern over the abuse of reopened eateries in Kenya.
According to Kagwe, some individuals have been taking advantage of the reopening of eateries by ordering multiple beers with a single sausage, only to leave and repeat the same behavior at another restaurant.
"We have said in the past that we will escalate or deescalate measures in accordance with the behaviors that we observe," Kagwe said. "I just said earlier that this intervention was supposed to secure some form of livelihood for some people even as we observe the measures that we have taken."
He further stated, "And it is true that it has been abused, it's a fact that people have been going to pubs, or to eateries, they order one sausage with two beers, anakula hiyo sausage moja na beer mbili."
Restaurants were allowed to reopen only after complying with the reopening guidelines and getting approval by the government.
