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Yes, let's fish seedlings from the air and supplant them to earn carbon-credits

President William Ruto during the Annual Kaptagat Forest tree planting at Our Lady of Glory Kaptagat Girls High School in Elgeyo Marakwet County. [File, Standard]

Today is Mazingira Day, so I was expecting the powers that be, who dispense public holidays like njugu karanga to lead in a tree-planting drive. It was pretty sexy to do that a year or two ago, when there was big talk about carbon-credit crap.

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