More than 20 elephants from the Rimoi Game Reserve strayed into a nearby farm in the dead of night, causing extensive damage to crops and property before finally retreating back into the reserve in the morning.
Fred Kiprop, the affected farmer, lamented the destruction, saying the elephants had wiped out his entire fruit farm which had more than 600 mango and 160 pawpaw trees. "Each of my 600 mango trees bears over 200 fruits, and I also had 160 pawpaw trees - all of them destroyed," Kiprop said with visible frustration. "The farm was my retirement plan.
I've invested everything here.
Now it's all gone, and I have no idea how to move forward," he bewailed.
