Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen, who also doubles up as the Senate majority leader, has urged the media not to relent in telling the truth about the Mau Forest debacle.
In a tweet on Sunday evening, he wondered why Royal Media Services-owned Citizen Television had discontinued a feature on Mau.
He appeared to suggest that the discontinuation might have occurred as a result of pressure from other quarters.
"Why has @citizentvkenya discontinued abruptly the feature on Mau? Is it a case of the truth being too painful to handle? Media is beginning to get to the bottom of the trust land issue and they need to be supported not undermined. Well done @citizentvkenya don’t bow to any pressure," Murkomen's tweet read.
The majority leader has strongly opposed the eviction of people from the important water catchment area that has been at the centre of a tug of war between the Ministry of Environment and a section of leaders from Rift Valley.
Those opposed to people being pushed out of Mau contend that the land in contention does not belong to the national government but to the county government of Narok.
Environment Cabinet Secretary Keriako Tobiko has maintained that there will be no compensation for the settlers in spite of demands from a section of leaders that compensation be offered first.