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How politics, greed fuel encroachment of Mau complex

Residents prepare their farms for planting at Kitopen in Maasai Mau forest on August 30. The area has been earmarked for phase two evictions. [Kipsang Joseph,Standard]

Wilson Memusi, 68, is a member of a local indigenous forest-dwelling community who have inhabited Mau forest complex for years.

Memusi has watched with shock as the destruction of what he describes as his home continues unabated over the last three decades.

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