Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko has denied claims that the ministry plans to install CCTV cameras in forests to curb illegal logging.
Tobiko said the ministry has never hatched such plans adding that there are enough Kenya Forestry Services officer to tame illegal tree cutting in all State managed forests in the country.
"That information is totally misleading because there is no such a plan," he told journalists in Nairobi on Sunday.
The CS spoke hours after media reports emerged claiming that plans were underway to install CCTV cameras in forests as the ministry races towards restoring lost forest cover in the country.
He said indeed there are projects set to be rolled out by the ministry to help fight illegal logging but installations of the digital cameras was not in the list of the projects.
About a month ago Deputy President William Ruto directed the Environment ministry to suspend tree cutting by 90 days to tale unwarranted cutting of trees in government managed forests.
Tree cutting, the Deputy President said, had become rampant that the country was increasingly becoming a desert.
He directed Tobiko to form a 10-member task force committee to review forest management across the country.
But despite Ruto's ban tree cutting has continued in most parts of the country.