A heated public debate was recently sparked off by the national authority for the campaign against alcohol and drug abuse, NACADA, when it called for the banning of Miraa claiming it is indeed a drug. NACADA further states that 40 per cent of residents in the north eastern region of Kenya abuse miraa. But, to the Ameru people NACADA is totally out of order in targeting their lifeline. In the first of a two-part series "The Miraa'cle tree" Willis Raburu tells of the heritage of miraa and the processes and emotions attached to it.
