Eco Drama! CS Ogamba’s 29 Vehicles on Mazingira Day Mock Kenya’s Green Agenda (VIDEO)
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Migos Ogamba has ignited public outrage after storming Mazingira Day celebrations in Kisii with a jaw-dropping 29-car fuel-guzzling motorcade—all in the name of planting trees.
The CS, who was presiding over a tree-planting session at Kenyoro Primary and Secondary Schools in Kitutu Chache North, arrived like a visiting monarch, complete with police escorts, chase cars, VIP Prados, and sirens screaming through village roads—all while lecturing Kenyans about environmental responsibility.
Yes, you read that right—29 vehicles. For a tree-planting event.
The irony wasn’t lost on furious Kenyans, who took to social media to roast the CS for hypocrisy and abuse of taxpayers’ money. Critics accused him of turning a national environmental conservation event into a fuel-burning, carbon-emitting circus of state arrogance.
“How many trees were destroyed to build the road for his convoy?” one angry user posted. Another wrote: “Planting trees while blowing black smoke across Kisii—this government is a comedy show.”
Even environmental activists weighed in, calling the convoy “an insult to climate action”. “If Mazingira Day is about protecting nature, then why was one man allowed to leave behind a carbon footprint big enough to cover the entire constituency?” asked one activist from Kisii Green Movement.
The government has not commented on why a single Cabinet Secretary needed a motorcade big enough to escort a foreign president. But the message to Kenyans was loud and clear: environment conservation is for citizens—extravagance is for VIPs.
Mazingira Day may have been about planting trees—but what grew fastest was public anger.