MPs reject raising minimum alcohol package to 750ml
Wednesday March 03 2021
By JOHN MUTUA
Summary
Consumers have won relief after Parliament rejected a proposal to raise the minimum volume of alcohol in a bottle to 750 millilitres, a change that could have substantially increased the prices of the beverage.
Wundanyi MP Danson Mwakuwona had sought to amend the 2010 law by limiting the packaging of alcoholic products in containers of a minimum of 750 millilitres from the current 250 millilitres, to curb consumption.
The National Assembly’s Administration and National Security Committee, however, disallowed the proposed changes saying there were sufficient existing laws to guard against alcohol consumption among the youth.