KWS on a slippery road down the drain

Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) personnel on board a helicopter try to tranquillise a female black rhino before transporting it as part of a rhino translocation exercise In the Nairobi National Park, Kenya, June 26, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Poor leadership, inadequate funding and lack of support from the national Government is threatening to bring down the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

Investigations by the Sunday Standard show that an entity that once had a fleet of over 100 vehicles, a huge percentage of these are stationary, some for reasons as trivial as lack of spare parts.