A swarm of bees that have been terrorising Maralal town residents has been removed to Kirisia forest in Samburu central.
A fortnight ago, a man was stung to death outside a shop in Maralal town.
Residents had called upon the government to find ways of containing the bees saying that their business activities were being interrupted.
County Agriculture, livestock and fisheries officers led the bees relocation exercise on Friday evening.
Patrick Lesharana, a county agricultural officer and a bee expert said that five bee colonies which have been living on the compound of a private property were relocated.
"The relocation was facilitated by the county's disaster management office and we have been able to remove the colonies from heart of the town to the forest," he said.
However, residents said that bee farming was a lucrative business as a kilo of honey was going for more than five hundred shillings.
"Bee farming is a paying business, county government should educate locals on how to keep them," a resident Jeddy
Milikau
said.
