Push to have park managed by County intensifies

This file photo taken on March 16, 2016 shows a Kenya Wildlife Services veterinary preparing to dart an elephant from a helicopter to set him a newly fitted collar recovers on March 15, 2016 at the Tsavo east national park (approximately 337 kilometres south east) of capital, Nairobi.

The push to have the vast Tsavo National Park and two parcels belonging to the Kenya Prisons Service reverted to the local community has intensified.

Yesterday, Governor Granton Samboja announced that his administration and the county assembly have started collecting signatures to petition the national Government to cede the park to the county.