Residents from Ndunyu Sabuk region which borders the Ndunyu Sabuk game reserve held a meeting on Wednesday with the officials of the Kenya Wildlife Service who are in charge of the wild reserve whereby Mr. Thomas Mailu who is the District Warden attended too.
During the meeting, the residents lamented over the destructions the wild animals have caused in the area over and over again in the past years.
"Each planting season, the animals always get to some shambas and destroy people's crops with some even injuring people. Last year, we witnessed several cases whereby plantations in Kiliku village were badly destroyed, several children killed, 2 farmers, Mzee Gini and Kikondu Mailu badly injured by a buffalo, and another farmer, Mzee Vava died following a snake bite, and all those cases were never adressed," complained the area chief Mr. Austin Kioko.
Chief Kioko expressed in fury that the wild beasts have been a menace to them for along time and he therefore warned that if the KWS department will not deal with the issues this cultivating season, the resident will organise themselves and deal with the animals accordingly.
However, Wadern Mailu did not promise compensation for the losses as the people expected. In his speech, he said that the government has spent Kshs.40 million in the establishment of an electric fencing around the game reserve. Mailu therefore assured the people that they will not witness further wild beast destructions in the area.