Her mission, inspired by the biblical lesson of the conversion of Saul to Paul, is to turn those who log trees for firewood, charcoal, and timber into protectors of forests.
For the last three years, Ms. Jacinta Karoki has been traversing Meru County in search of encroachers conducting illicit activities in the state-owned Lower and Upper Imenti Forest to persuade them to change their ways.
Ms. Karoki is a reformed woman. In her own words, the 48-year-old lady was a well-known notorious…
