How Mama Ngina Killed The Elephant in The Room

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A resident of Gatundu South is single-handedly responsible for poaching thousands of elephants for their ivory.

“By bullet and poison arrow the elephants are slaughtered to make billiard balls and piano keys, dedicated carvings, and tourist curios and to lie in the bank volts of the shrewd and the rich…” mentions New Scientist magazine.

The May 1975-issue mentioned how the lady used her husband’s influence to get affluence by a bullet by blood.

She and other high-profile government officials used state and private vehicles and planes to smuggle the ivory outside Kenya.

Mama Ngina and her stepdaughter, who was the first African female mayor, used Kenya Wildlife Service officers to commit the elephant genocide.

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The genocide saw the elephant population throughout Kenya reduce from 275,000 to 20,000 in two decades.

It is estimated that, in the 1970s, the Chairman of United Africa Corporation generated Ksh 800 million through the ivory trade.

UAC was the biggest ivory exporter for 10 years despite a ban that was in force.

Although elephant hunting was banned in 1973, UAC still operated a government-issued ivory export permit.

There was much scandal that is said to have caused the assassination of a Nyandarua resident JM.

That is how Mama Ngina poached the elephants in the rooms.

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