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Village in Murang’a where youths see crime, chang'aa as ultimate path to success

A man shows a path that leads to Maica Ma Thi village in Maragua, Murang’a County.

Photo credit: Mwangi Muiruri | Nation Media Group
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By  Mwangi Muiruri

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • Records also show that the village is notorious as the source of chang’aa.
  • Even arresting and jailing of known distillers of the illegal drink has not borne fruit.
  • Maragua MP Mary Wamaua Waithira blamed low literacy levels and a criminal mind-set for the village's woes.
  • Some villagers who spoke to the Nation blamed the authorities for the ever-worsening situation.

Maica Ma Thi is a village in Maragua, Murang’a County, which has many times been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Since the early 1960s, police have always singled out the village as the source of gangs that have had a strong grip on Maragua town.

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