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Police in Rwamagana District have warned residents against distilling, selling and consuming alcoholic substances that are substandard and harmful to users.
The warning follows the seizure of over 1200 litres of illicit substances on March 12 where two distilleries were destroyed and owners arrested.
The acting Police spokesperson for the Eastern region, Inspector of Police (IP) Samson Habukuri, while speaking at the public exercise to pour the illicit drinks, commended the existing police-public partnership in fighting criminality and drug dealers in particular.
“Operations will continue to arrest anyone running illegal distilleries or selling these harmful substances,” IP Habukuri said while addressing residents.
“We should work together to identify dealers through shared information because these people are your neighbours in your communities. Alcoholic drinks have to follow certain standards to be brewed; it starts with licensing and using prescribed raw materials that are not harmful to consumers, and also ensuring maximum hygiene in the whole process,” he explained.
RSB specifies that “only food grade processing aids recognized as safe for human consumption shall be used during the manufacture.”
Other standard requirements include labeling as a prerequisite; the name of the products, physical and postal address of manufacturer; net contents in milliliters or liters; ethyl alcohol content; date of manufacture and expiry date; storage instruction; statutory warnings; and list of ingredients in descending order.
He, however, thanked members of the public that continue to drive the philosophy of community policing in fighting illicit drugs and crimes in general.
