Bar Owners urges Govt to offer them 50 percent discount on licenses

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Bars, Hotels and Liquor Traders Association General Secretary Boniface Gachoka address the press in Kisumu today where they have asked the County Governments to give them 50 percent discount on the licenses they operate on to cushion them as a result of losses incurred during this Covi-19 disease-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo

By Dickson Odhiambo

October 28, 2021

Bar Owners urges Govt to offer them 50 percent discount on licenses

A NUMBER of Bar and Hotel Operators across the country have urged the various county Government where they are operating their businesses to give them discount on issuing licenses so as to help them in recovering from the losses incurred as a result of Covid 19 pandemic.

The Bar owners and hoteliers said they have incurred huge losses during this Corona virus disease since March Last year hence the need to be given discount on the issue of obtaining licensing for operating their businesses across the country.

Addressing the press in Kisumu today, the stakeholders under the banner of Bars, Hotels and Liquor Traders Association General Secretary Boniface Gachoka said there is need for both the County Governments and Bar owners to sit down and discuss the issues where an amicable solution should be found.

Gachoka says about 15,000 premises across the country shut down and about shs 150 billion were lost when such business premises shut down due to Covid 19.

He adds that during such period, about 200,000 workers in the sector were sent home after the business premises they were working at were shut.

Gachoka further says that it will take about between 8 to 10 years for the industry to come back to where they were in terms of business before the Covid 19 pandemic.

The Association’s National Chairman Simon Njoroge proposed that the bars, Hotels and Liquor traders across the country should be given a discount of 50 percent.

The Association at the same time told the Government to consider using bars and restaurants so as to register new voters across the country during the yet to be concluded enhanced voter registration exercise so as to help in registering new voters ahead of the next years polls.

They also want such places to be used as Covid 19 vaccination centers aiming at vaccinating more people who have not yet received the Covid-19 jab.

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