Mau settlers to get title deeds after bitter legal battle

Kenya Forest Service officers patrol Marioshoni in the Eastern Mau Forest Complex during an operation to flash out illegal settlers on July 11, 2020. [File, Standard]

For decades, thousands of families in six settlement schemes established in 1995 at the foot of Eastern Mau Forest in Nakuru have been living on the edge.

This is however set to change following a September 30, 2024 court ruling upholding the validity of a 2001 cut line which defines the boundary between the forest and the schemes.