Victims of human-wildlife conflict in Turkana County have a reason to smile after the government embarked on a critical phase in the compensation process.
County Commissioner Julius Kavita and Kenya Wildlife Service County Warden Elijah Chege convened a high-level county wildlife compensation committee meeting with a view to unlocking the impasse in the compensation process.
The meeting deliberated on 103 pending claims cases, which included human death, human injury, attacks on livestock as well as destruction of crops by wildlife. "Out of the 103 cases, 35 were pending claims from as far back as 2014 and 68 were new cases that had never been presented to the committee before," said Kavita.
The Commissioner reiterated the government's commitment to compensating victims of human-wildlife conflict but challenged them to provide accurate and truthful information regarding such incidents.
