No more human activities will be allowed in various blocks of the Mau Forest as government through a multi-agency committee steps in to restore the water tower.
The Committee will commence the 60-days exercise soon on the Maasai Mau in Narok South.
The 10-membership Multi-agency committee is chaired by Rift Valley Regional Commissioner George Natembeya who is also the immediate former Narok County Commissioner.
Addressing media in Nakuru after holding a lengthy meeting with the committee members, Natembeya said the ongoing debate on the Mau evictions has created confusion hence the matter has to find a lasting solution once and for all.
The Rift Valley Regional Commission was categorical that no more activities of logging, cultivation and grazing will be allowed in the water tower.
He also called on politicians and members of the press to cooperate with the government in addressing the same
“We will not waste time as consequences of Mau destruction will remain with us. No one should talk against evictions because we have to conserve the tower. When we commence the same we shall not allow any human activities in the forest” said Natembeya.
The Multi-agency committee said the government will be erecting an electric fence around the Maasai Mau in order to limit human activities.
There will also be a serious exercise of the planting trees to replace the ones that were destroyed previously with no animals being allowed to graze within the tower.
On the issue of title deeds that some 10,000 households in Mau claim to have acquired, the Multi-agency committee says the government already disowned them and that those claiming to have title deeds will have to explain to the government how they acquired them.
According to Natembeya, no government can issue title deeds to allow citizens to live and destroy a water tower.
A section Rift Valley leaders over the weekend met in Nakuru to discuss the impending evictions from the forest.
Former Kuresoi South MP Zakayo Cheruiyot says if the eviction would be necessary, then the process should be done in a way that will see all families not left to suffer.
The eviction that might see over 60,000 families rendered homeless have been castigated by leaders especially from Rift Valley who have claimed that the people are occupying the land legally.
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