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MPs in fresh push to lift expansive Mau forest complex land ban

Stanley Keter at his farm in Kenya Mpya settlement in the Mau Forest Complex on July 3,2014. [File, Standard]

The caveat on parcels of land excised from the Mau Forest Complex in 2015 is hurting peasants in the South Rift region. According to a section of leaders from the region, lifting the caveat on land in the fringes of the expansive forest will spur development and growth.

On Sunday, during a church service at St Mary's Catholic Church in Molo, attended by President William Ruto, the leaders renewed their bid to push for lifting the ban.

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