Timber worth Sh1b rotting away in yards

An indigenous tree that was cut down buy Charcoal burners and illegal loggers at Kiptunga Forest in Mau. [Photo by Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Timber worth an estimated Sh1 billion is rotting away in sawmill yards in Mt Kenya region as the ban on tree harvesting in Government forests takes its toll.

The three-month ban imposed by the national government has extended to timber in the yards and licensed saw millers now find themselves with stacks of legally acquired timber they cannot sell.