Laikipia village where farmers sleep in farms to deter jumbos

Joyce Mukami from Nginyii village in Laikipia East is lucky that elephants did not destroy her crop of tomatoes. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

The nightly routine of residents of Nginyii village in Umande ward, Laikipia County, has been upended by the invasion of elephants that descend from the nearby Lolldaiga Hills in search of food.

Locals have to brave the cold as they stand guard over their crops of tomatoes, carrots, French beans and other horticultural produce that prove irresistible to the jumbos, which destroy all fences or hedges erected to stop them from eating to their fill.