Kenya: the mweri tree scandal; Dr Newton Kulundu, Kenya's environment minister, is not happy that the cash benefit from the medicinal properties of the Prunus Africana tree, has been monopolised by individuals. And he wants it stopped. Wanjohi Kabukuru reports from Nairobi.

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Kenya: the mweri tree scandal; Dr Newton Kulundu, Kenya's environment minister, is not happy that the cash benefit from the medicinal properties of the Prunus Africana tree, has been monopolised by individuals. And he wants it stopped. Wanjohi Kabukuru reports from Nairobi.

"It is not a secret that Jonathan Leakey has been exporting the products of the Prunus Africana to the European market for the last 20 years," says an unhappy Dr Newton Kulundu. Until he lambasted Jonathan Leakey, ordinary Kenyans had sparse knowledge of the African Plum (the tree called Prunus Africana by the scientific world, but muiri or mweri by the Kikuyus).

Kulundu not only castigated Leakey, he went ahead and directed the country'...

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