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Youths disrupt meeting to discuss uprooting of 100-year fig tree in Mt.Elgon

The famous Iconic Fig Tree standing on the space where the Nairobi expressway will pass through along Waiyaki way. [File, Standard]

Armed youths disrupted a meeting convened by the Saboat elders in Mt Elgon to discuss the plan to cut down a huge fig tree at Cheptais Primary School.

The public participation exercise held on Sunday over the cutting down of the tree as directed by the Kitale Environmental Court aborted after the youths stormed in.

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