Maasai Community rejects IDP resettlement

Narok,Kenya:  Members of the Maasai community in Trans Mara have opposed the Government’s move to resettle Internally Displaced Persons in the area.

There was tension at Moyoi Adjudication section as a delegation from the Lands Ministry and their counterparts from the former Special Programmes Ministry visited the area.

Residents claimed this was a scheme to dispossess them of their ancestral land but the officials they wanted to purchase land to resettle part of the Mau forest evictees.