Nairobi star Monday September 7, 2009
BY HILTON OTENYO

CONFUSION over the enforcement of the Tobacco Control Act in Kakamega town continued for the fourth day yesterday with police announcing implementation had been suspended until

further notice.
However, police officers continued to arrest traders found selling single cigarette sticks and those found smoking in public in the town even as Kakamega Police Commander John

Mwinzi said implementation had been halted.
Traders and smokers complained that officers were extorting money from them. They said that the officers were arresting them and demanding for a minimum of sh. 5,000 before

releasing them.
But Mwinzi said he stopped arrests on Friday and that officers found harassing the smokers should be arrest ed by the public.
He said he had withdrawn police officers who had been assigned to patrol the town in the company of public health officers to arrest those flouting the law.
He said the suspension of the law will allow proper sensitization of the public about it.

Confusion over enforcement of the tobacco control act in Kakamega town continued for the fourth yesterday with police announcing implementation had been suspended until further

notice.