Several top government officials and politicians could be arrested on few months time following the government's commitment to end the Mau Forest quagmire.
Over 60,000 families are facing eviction from Africa's largest canopy forest, with some reports indicating that most of them were genuine buyers.
Recently, the government halted plans to evict the families following pleas from a host of Rift Valley politicians. The evictions are set to resume next month.
But Rift Valley Regional Commissioner George Natembeya said the government will charge those linked to irregular allocation of the land to settlers.
Among them are big government officials and politicians. Already, he says, the government has visited graves of those suspects who have since died.
“All government officials who were involved have recorded statements. For those who have died, we have gone to their graves to confirm that they have indeed died. We also have their death certificates,” Mr Natembeya told the Nation in an exclusive interview.
“We have already handed their files to the DPP, and it’s just a matter of time before they are arrested and charged,” Mr Natembeya said recently.
There has been also the question of cut line, with Kalenjin leaders insisting that only those who encroached the official boundary should be evicted.
This boundary is six kilometres inside the forest, as opposed to the cutline tat is now cited as the official demarcation.
“This was a scheme to give the people false confidence that the ballooning was credible; that this was a trust land available for settlement,” Mr Natembeya says.
The Mau complex question has troubled DP William Ruto, who initially insisted that the government had no plans to kick out genuine buyers.
A group of Kalenjin community lawyers have moved to the International Court of Justice in the Hague to challenge the planned evictions.