The Lembus Council of Elders have moved to the High Court in Eldoret to sue the government over continued destruction of Lembus forest in Baringo county. Justice Silas Munyao of the Environment and Lands Division has issued an order against the director of the Kenya Forest Service and the Baringo county forest co-ordinator to stop them from harvesting timber from the forests. Chairman Joseph Leboo and member Phillip Sura moved to court through lawyer Elizabeth Rotich saying saw millers had illegally been allowed to harvest timber from the forest, causing extensive destruction. The case was...
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