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Kenya Forest Service earns Sh2.7bn from plantations

Kenya Forest Service officers inspect cedar posts that were impounded at Ewuaso-Ngiro trading centre in October 2018. FILE PHOTO | NMG

By  Edwin Mutai

Nation Media Group

Political Reporter

The Kenya Forest Service (KFS) raked in Sh2.7 billion from its tree plantations in the year that the government imposed a total ban on logging.

A report of the Auditor-General Edward Ouko shows that KFS earned Sh2,702,904,804 as appropriations-in-aid (AIA) from forest and related forest products in the year to June 2018.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.

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