Tourism and Wildlife Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala has been put to task over the death of 11 rhinos during relocation in August last year.
Eleven members of parliament have asked the CS to explain what transpired before the death of the rhinos.
The National Assembly Committee on Environment and Natural Resources indicate that the CS made a series of errors that led to the death of the rhinos amid their threat to extinction. The report also indicates that the rhinos had taken saline water before they died.
The water is reportedly the cause of their death. Balala has also been accused of failing to come up with a new board of trustees at Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to ensure that the animals are protected from any form of hazard. He has been faulted for creating a vacuum in power, thereby leaving no one to make critical decisions in the government.
“The Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Wildlife and Tourism should take overall responsibility for the botched translocation exercise, since he delayed in the appointment of a new board of trustees at KWS,” read part of the report, as quoted by Standard.
The report also argued that the board could have come up with better solutions in regard to the matter, and also blamed the then Principal Secretary for Wildlife Margaret Mwakema for not advising Balala accordingly on the relocation of the rhinos before they met their death.