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Mau residents feel the heat as eviction looms

Officers patrol at Sierra Leon area in Maasai Mau Forest in Narok County. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Reality has started sinking in for nearly 10,000 families living on land the Government has declared to be part of Mau Forest.

Yesterday morning, The Standard team, which has been camping in the disputed 17,000 acres of land in Narok South, witnessed the despair of settlers as they demolished their homes.

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