Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko has said that none of the settlers who have been kicked out of the Maasai Mau Forest will be compensated.
In the course of the voluntary exit which has since ended, some settlers argued that they bought the land they were occupying, with area politicians echoing the remarks.
However, Tobiko on Friday ruled out any compensation, adding that the State has mobilized money to fence off the Sierra Leone region and plant 10 million tree seedlings.
He said that about 40 per cent of the planting has since been done through aerial broadcasting planting method, with the fencing exercise having also kicked off.“
We are targeting 10 million trees in the entire Maasai Mau forest and we have also done four million seeds through aerial seeding,” said Tobiko.
He added that all the families have since left, adding that the no one was brutalised of harassed by the police to exit the water catchment complex.
"For the last 60 days, we have done everything in the open and people left voluntarily. No bullet was fired nor anyone brutalised,” he added.
However, the eviction exercise has been carried out amid complaints from politicians from the Kalenjin community, who have even threatened to take legal action against the government.
On the other hand, politicians from the Maasai community have been in complete support of the evictions.
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