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illicit brew killed my friend



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30 seconds after drinking illicit brew fell down and died say no to illicit brew ! so many young people are trapped in this cheap poisonus brew

elicit brew is laced with methanol and its locally known as kill me quick because of its lethal properties. my good friend and team was a victim of how bad this cheap brew cost him his life . it still pain me because if i knew earlier how bad this drink was i would have saved my friend . the dangers of this brew came to light only after 100 folks lost their lives while others lost their eye sights and some were left in icu but even after the first casuality nothing was done . desperation , poverty still drove people back to this illicit brew.i was thinking if the goverment can fund county goverments to create an awareness , spread the information in local language to reach every one this might help or , try to impose tough law on illicit brew.so my friend really love this illicit brew he would drink it three times a day and he wont stop talking he would tell me stories and even over talk sometimes but he was fun and since then i realize how drunk people never lie.so that day he was not ok and i though he was just drunk as usual he started throwing up and shaking hat was un usual for him to do that ,things got worse when he started oozing blood from his nose , mouth , ear i got scared and i had to call for help that didnt take long my friend was pronoused dead .that was very fast and i got reaumatized got me thinking how presious lives are one minute your a live the next minute you fighting for your life it traumatize me so much . the last conversation we had before he started throwing up and i thought it was a joke only for him to die . during his burial i had to talk to the community about the dangers of illicit brew i had to share my first hand experience i saw on my friend yes it was hard to explain but i had to do it my voice was shaking but i still had to speak . while i was talking about it that night more people got hospitalized from the same illicit brew it pain me that the poor are the most affected this is because its cheap , it can easly be accessed those that brew it have nothing to loose they are out here for the money without thinking about the lives they are ruining . been asking myself were do they find the poison they are adding to the brew is there someone in the morge minting millions from selling ethenol to this brewers how heartless are they but again poverty is pushing most people to do it , the people drinking this illicit brew are young people and most of themhave given up in life for lack of employment the only place they find comfort ison that brew remember they are so addicted to it that if they dont drink it they have withdrawal symptms that is shaking , loosing their mind or even fainting .they will do anything for that dangerous drink .the dangerous drink affect their system some end up being infertile so most community with illicit brew have generatin gap , because once they are drunk they have no sexual feelings the dangerous drink over power them ,. having a one on one chat with folks inmy community drinking this illitic brew they tellme its the only way to escape the daily struggle some of them have been looking for emloyment for the last 10 yrs they have degrees were do they find comfort the dangerous brew definitly i felt so bad for them even though i dont support drinking . its hight time the county goverment save this young people from drinking . there is a nother group of retirees who are also drinking this dangerous drink its the only place they can find peace may be some of them have no exit plan , they feel like they have failed in life some had big names and doing very nice job but now they are back in the village with nothing to show the only way to foreget about their disappointment drinking the only therapy for them. most retirees die after drinking this brew even some tell you howthey would die after drinking because GOD has forgotten about them they see no need of living.ever since my friend died from it ,i'm notkeeping quiet my community need to know how bad and dangerous this local brew is to their system , i look forward to saving as many young lives as possible with the help of local goverment i'm thinking of creating a wareness with the little resourses i have. have an event that allow everyone to attend in evey local community talk to villagers one on one showing graphics of how dangerous it is to consume illicit brew that has poinson in it. share the best caution to take if you have withdrawal symtops seek medication before its too late , but againi remember our public hospitalls have no medicine i bet that will be a best way to remind them to think twice before they drink .beause when you drink youwill die . drunkerds have nothing to loose so i have tobe carefulhow i pass my information to themi would like to be so wise with my words , i would like to make my community free from illicit brew deaths , i want to see changes in my community were we dont have to bury hundres of innocent people leaving families broken , leaving children orphans ,leaving depression in community .i look forward to changing lives and saving lives mentor those brewers to start doing other business that is of better benefit that wont hurt the community , share my pain of loosing a friend that i will never bring back to life.

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