Kajiado governor Joseph ole Lenku has reiterated his warning for KWS to get stray elephants out of Maasais’ farms.
Lenku said on Wednesday that Kenya Wildlife Service does not have an option.
“I am giving them two days to drive their elephants from our farms, failure of which my people will defend themselves. The jumbos have left a trail of destruction wherever they have passed.”
He addressed the press flanked by Kajiado acting county commissioner David Kipkemei and Mashuuru deputy county commissioner Stephen Nyakundi.
The trio spoke to armed Maasai morans in Imbuko Location of Mashuuru sub-county upon landing from a KWS chopper.
The morans, who killed two jumbos from Amboseli National Park in Imbuko Location last Saturday, had warned KWS against letting the animals stray into their farms.
Their leader, Peter Lesalaon, noted their children stopped going to schools “because the elephants have strayed all over the area”, from Amboseli and Chulu Hills.
Imbuko lies along the wildlife corridor through which animals migrate from Amboseli to Tsavo National Park at this time of the year.