The government needs Sh10 billion to compensate victims in 14,000 cases of human-wildlife conflict, Tourism CS Najib Balala has said. An audit of the cases is ongoing and a list of genuine victims will be drawn up once the process is completed. He was speaking in Nairobi at a consultative forum on human-wildlife compensation. Balala said the ministry has between 5,000 and 6,000 pending injury cases, with almost 2,000 having been cleared. There was no budget and criteria for verifying those with genuine cases and which goes by the law and which doesn’t,” he said.

Source: The Star May 16, 2019 02:03 UTC