[Robert Kiplagat/Standard]A section of Maasai leaders have issued a two-week ultimatum to government to evict the remaining about 40,000 people living in the caveat area, failure to which they will mobilize community members to flush the ‘illegal’ settlers from the Maasai Mau forest. The leaders who spoke at Nkareta trading center in Narok North said while they are appreciate the government’s move to evict the 7,000 people from Kosia and Nkoben areas. ALSO READ: 'Sierra Leone' settlers flee ahead of evictionThey want the water tower freed of settlers in the soonest time possible. “Conservation of the Maasai Mau forest to the Maa community is a matter of life and death. They also faulted Kericho Governor Paul Chepkwony for filing a petition seeking to block the evictions and instead asked him to keep off Maasai Mau and Narok affairs.

Source: Standard Digital July 29, 2018 08:37 UTC