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Locals demand fast compensation for fluorspar mining land

Kenya Fluorspar Company's mining site in Kimwarer, Elgeyo Marakwet County. The company has suspended mining operations. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard]

Residents whose land was taken for extraction of fluoride in at Kerio Valley almost 50 years ago are yet to be compensated.

The landowners surrendered some 9,070 acres to the Kenya Fluorspar Mining Company in the 1970s.

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