Despair as residents feel the pinch of fluorspar firm’s exit

Kenya Fluorspar Company MD Nico Spangenberg (right) supervises operations at the company's mining site in Kimwarer, Elgeyo Marakwet County at a past event. (File, Standard)

The chickens are coming home to roost on Kerio Valley residents who used to complain about pollution and dispossession of land by a company that has since closed down.

Two years after Kenya Fluorspar Mining Company (KFC) halted operations at Kerio Valley in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, thousands of locals are now feeling the gap left by the firm’s exit.