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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
This one is heating up again. Over the weekend, a section of Rift Valley MPs endorsed the burning of questionnaires sent in from the Prime Minister's office, a task force that has been set up, and which sent the questionnaires (which questionnaires MPs declared illegal for not bearing the government's coat of arms).
Today, the Minister for Culture and Heritage William ole Ntimama was at it, against his Agriculture counterpart and namesake and in support of the Prime Minister. He asked the Eldoret North MP not to think the Kalenjin of greater significance than other Kenyan communities and insisted that there ought to be no compensation for the evictions from the Mau, which evictions he heartily supported.
Ntimama's position is at variance with the official state line, which is that those to be removed from the Mau will be compensated financially or will have alternative land offered to them. the Narok North MP, in whose constituency a large part of the Mara falls pointed to other expulsions from forest land, in Meru and the Aberdares, whose victims had not yet received any compensation and were languishing on 'road reserves.'
The Task Force has been reported in the news, asking for more time to settle the issue.
Related News
a) Clashes in Molo, on border with Narok, likely Maasai versus Kalenjin
b) News reels show the Mau still being slashed and burned
c) Potential new studies questioning conventional wisdom that the Mau is causing distress downstream, click here for Meine van Noordwijk article .
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