More than 7,000 farmers around Lake Kamnarok Game Reserve want the State to compensate them for land they surrendered in 1983 to create the reserve.
The peasants, who converged at the Kenya School of Government, Baringo campus, for talks with the Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS), said they were never involved in the decision to establish the reserve. Mr Joseph Kiptala, the chairman of Kamnarok Farmers Group, claimed the state created the game reserve without public participation.