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Government officials use police trucks to illegally transport timber

One of the three Prison lorry nabbed along Edoret- Eldama Ravine road ferrying timber on 3rd April, 2018

A network of cartels involving senior Government officers is using police trucks to ferry charcoal and timber, in violation of the ban on logging.

In a brazen show of those charged with enforcing the law turning into law-breakers, police lorries are transporting the illicit cargo, confident that they can get past road blocks set up by their colleagues without any hitch.

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