A Kenyan government taskforce is accusing the Kenya Forest Service administration of corruption after a staff investigation determined the forest service permitted illegal logging within the country.
The taskforce had been appointed to study the extent of deforestation in Kenya, according to Reuters, and found that the Kenya Forest Service was “largely responsible” for the forest’s reductions. The taskforce is calling on the administrators of the service to be fired.
“The Board and Management of the Kenya Forest Service has been unable to stem and in some instances have directly participated in, abated, and systemized rampant corruption and abuse of office,” the taskforce’s report, which was released last week, stated.
Forest cover in Kenya has declined nearly 40 percent over the past 50 years.
