{"id":4164,"date":"2019-07-29T10:01:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T07:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"kfs-board-chairman-on-the-spot-over-cafe-in-middle-of-karura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/29\/kfs-board-chairman-on-the-spot-over-cafe-in-middle-of-karura\/","title":{"rendered":"KFS Board Chairman On The Spot Over Caf\u00e9 In Middle Of Karura"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Business Daily<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Questions have been raised over the legality of the\noperations of River Caf\u00e9 which is located in the middle of Karura Forest in\nNairobi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chairman of the National Assembly Environment Committee\nKareke Mbiuki, who is also the Maara Member of Parliament, Saturday told the\nSunday Nation that the establishment of such restaurants was responsible for\nthe dwindling forest cover as senior government officials whimsically allocate\nthemselves spaces in the natural resource for commercial gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a classic case of conflict of interest, the caf\u00e9 is\nbeing run by Mrs Sophie Kinyua, who is Kenya Forest Service (KFS) board\nchairman Peter Kinyua\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe should not hold the KFS position in all fairness and\nit is unfortunate he continues to operate the restaurant,\u201d Mr Mbiuki said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/news\/KFS-chairman-spot-over-caf--inside-Karura\/539546-5213132-1ekudr\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Business Daily Questions have been raised over the legality of the operations of River Caf\u00e9 which is located in the middle of Karura Forest in Nairobi. Chairman of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}