Kenyans are irked after a picture showing a tree stump emerged on the internet. The tree which was planted by the late Prof Wangari Maathai had been cut down, much to the chagrin of netizens.
The person(s) who took and shared the picture neither identified the location of where the tree had been planted nor the person(s) responsible for cutting it down.
The late Prof Maathai, who died on 2011, was the first African Woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2004.
Conservation efforts
She won the award for her campaigns to promote conservation, women’s rights and for championing for democracy.
Because she opposed cutting down trees, when she died her remains were placed in a bamboo-frame coffin, made of water hyacinth and papyrus reeds and draped with a Kenyan flag.
After the funeral, she was cremated at a private ceremony.