Kenya: We Won't Vote in 2017 As Govt Has Abandoned Us, Say Mau Forest Evictees Living in Kericho

13 September 2016

More than 800 people who were evicted from Mau Forest and later resettled in Lelaitich Village in Sigowet/Soin Constituency, Kericho County have threatened not to participate in next year's general elections to protest what they term as abandonment by the national government.

The residents, who make up the 148 families that were resettled in the area four years ago after being kicked out of the Mau water tower as part of conservation efforts, accused the government of dumping them in a harsh environment and leaving them to suffer.

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