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Probe on bogus Mau IDPs brings out the complexity of relocation process

Regina Chepkemoi ponders what next outside her makeshift hut at Sigotik in Mau, Nakuru County. She is among hundreds of IDPs evicted from Mau Forest in 2012 who have not received the Sh200,000 compensation. [PHOTO: KIPSANG JOSEPH/STANDARD]

NAKURU: A fresh controversy is dogging a government programme to resettle evictees of the Mau Forest, many  who have been languishing in camps for several years. 

Amid claims that the names of some senior police officers had been irregularly inserted in the list of beneficiaries, it has emerged that several of those already compensated cannot access their money at a commercial bank in Njoro.

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