Human-Wildlife conflict: Sh50m electric fence stalls in boundaries row

Locals own only 12 per cent of county's land

Plans to erect a Sh50 million electric fence around a private animal sanctuary in Mwatate have stalled due to wrangles. 

The project failed after the national government, which was to implement it, and residents of Bura, Mwakitau and Chawia wards differed over the boundary between Sarova Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary and their farms.