Controversial lawyer Miguna Miguna has listed names of prominent people he claims own huge tracts of land in the Mau water catchment complex.
This comes amid an ongoing campaign by the government through the Ministry of Environment to kick out persons who are said to have encroached into the forest.
However, in a tweet Tuesday, he wondered why the state is targeting peasants and leaving prominent people owning huge tracts of land, including ex-Bomet Governor Isaac Rutto.
Others he claimed are occupying and destroying the forest are President Uhuru Kenyatta and former president Daniel Moi families and the Timsales Timber company.
"Timsales, the worst and largest destroyer of Kenyan forests belongs to Despot Uhuru and his family. The 30,000 acres of land on which Moi's Kiptagich Tea Farm, Isaac Ruto's and Cheryot's huge farms sit were grabbed from the Mau yet they aren't being evicted. Only peasants are," he claimed.
However, the remark comes only weeks after Rutto, who has been among the Kalenjin politicians opposed to the evictions, denied owning even an inch of land in Mau.
The former county boss in an interview on Citizen TV last month said that he is solely opposed to the same because the evictees are being unfairly pushed out of their land.
"I do not own a single inch of land in the Mau," the Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) party leader said on August 20, during an interview on News Night.
The evictions on Tuesday saw Emurrua Dikkir MP Johanna Ngeno arrested over claims of leading protests against the evictions, with the government had vowed to remain firm.
On the other hand are politicians from the Maasai region who have backed the exercise, stressing on the need for the water tower to be preserved st whatever cost.