Kwale Deputy Governor Chirema Kombo has called on the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to urgently address the growing human-elephant conflict in the county, revealing that a teacher at Egu Primary School had been seriously injured by elephants.

Speaking during the 2026 Mashujaa Day celebrations in Lungalunga, Kombo urged KWS to take immediate action to protect residents, their farms and livelihoods. He challenged the agency to ensure that Kwale was free from the threat of roaming elephants within two weeks.

“As we speak, there is an Egu Primary School teacher who has been seriously injured by elephants. We ask KWS to do your work and ensure the elephants are moved because we cannot be celebrating Mashujaa Day in the midst of problems that we can solve,”Chirema Said.

Addressing the concerns raised by the Deputy Governor Chirema Kombo,Kwale County Commissioner David Rotich assured residents that the government would take action to address insecurity and the human-elephant conflict in the entire county .

"As a government we are committed to end human wild life conflict in kwale because we are aware residents farms have been destroyed by elephants some have been killed by the wild-life and I want to assure you this will come to an end".Rotich Said.

Other Leaders who spoke during the Mashujaa Day celebration include Lungalunga Member of Mangale Chiphoromodo,Kassim Tandaza Matuga and Kwale Women Representative Fatuma Masito.

The Leaders urged the National Government to end the human -wild-life conflict in kwale that according to them it has caused massive destruction of farm produce for the locals and claimed people 's lives.

Present at the meeting were the Deputy Government Spoke person Mwanaisha Chidzuga,Cecm Social Service Francisca Kilonzo,County Solicitor Kisiwa Koja,Members of the County Assembly Menza Beja Mwereni,Chimako Tsuma Dzombo,Directors among other Senior Government Officials.