A post with a photo claiming to show that a cut tree is the only existing memorial of the Wangari Maathai in Kenya is FALSE.

A post with a photo claiming to show that a cut tree is the only existing memorial of the Wangari Maathai in Kenya is UNTRUE.  

False: this image does not showcase the existing state of the Wangari Maathai memorial in Kenya.

The claim made in a Facebook post that includes an image of a cut tree dedicated to Wangari Maathai alludes to portray the state of Wangari Maathai’s memorial in Kenya.

In the post, the author laments about the state of the Wangari Maathai memorial in her motherland country.

While a tree dedicated to the Wangari Maathai was cut down, it was replaced by eight other seedlings which were planted in the same line as the cut tree.

According to a report by Nairobi news, a tree that was planted in the memory of the Late Wangari Maathai was cut down in January 2019 after it split into two posing a risk to children who plied the footpath.                               

“In light of cutting down the tree, eight tree seedlings have been planted along the same line where the tree cut as replacement”, read the report dated on February 27 2019.

Prof. Maathai, who hailed from Nyeri, was the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

She won the coveted award for her campaigns to promote environmental conservation, women’s right and advocating for democracy

In her ancestral hometown, a monument of Wangari Maathai lays In Nyeri county Heroes Park, famously known as the Nyeri Cultural Centre.

In June, the county government of Nyeri erected a statue of the Nobel peace prize winner Wangari Maathai .The monument is located next to the department of public works in Nyeri. 

In Nairobi County, a city road was renamed after the environmental activist.

In 2016, former Nairobi Governor Dr. Evans Kidero gave recognition to the environmental activist by renaming Forest Road in her honor dubbing it the “Prof. Wangari Maathai Road”.

Prof. Maathai was the founder of the Green Belt Movement, a non-profit organization that advocates for environmental conservation. 

Earlier last year,Governor Lee Kinyanjui announced that the Nobel laureate is set to be immortalized in a bronze statue at Nyayo Gardens in Nakuru county.

Sky FM has looked into a Facebook post claiming to depict the state of the Wangari Maathai memorial in Kenya and finds that it is UNTRUE

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