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Maasai leaders issue ultimatum to evict illegal settlers from Mau forest

Narok Senator Ledama ole Kina and Emurua Dikirr MP Johana Ng'eno join Maasai morans at Siana. [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.

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