Rift Valley regional coordinator George Natembeya should apologise to the Kipsigis for referring to them as a community that breeds like guinea pigs, an MP has said. Emurua Dikir MP Johana Ngeno described Natembeya as a civil servant who has gone astray and failed in his administrative duties of protecting the people. The Kipsigis community cannot be equated to rats or guinea pigs as Natembeya was quoted as referring to them,” Ng'eno said. He told Natembeya to get a Kipsigis language dictionary to understand the meaning of Kipsigis, whose translation, he said, means to bring forth as many children as one can. Ng'eno said 90 per cent of Mau forest lies in Kalenjin territory and it would be a human rights violation for Natembeya to issue eviction orders against the Kipsigis.

Source: The Star August 10, 2020 18:56 UTC