Ata kaa ya hippo haijaisha today he had a windfall.
Hundreds of locals armed with crude weapons today descended on Themba Village in Meru County and slaughtered an elephant that had been electrocuted by a live fence surrounding one of the farms.
This is the fifth elephant to die of electrocution in the area as a longstanding human-wildlife conflicts continue unabated.
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers retrieved the elephant’s tusks, leaving hundreds of young men to fight for a share of the meat.
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