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Mau evictions renew Raila, Ruto rivalry as their allies face off ahead of 2022

Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen addressing residents. Rift Jubilee leaders have blamed 2022 politics over Mau evictions. [Robert Kiplagat/Standard]

The 46,000-hectare Maasai Mau evictions have renewed the political rivalry between Deputy President William Ruto and Opposition leader Raila Odinga political rivalry as allies of the two clashed over the boundary between the forest and the settlement area.

The over 10 legislators drawn from the Rift Valley defended DP Ruto’s eviction of those who were living beyond the 2015 tea buffer zone created by the Jubilee administration but were opposed to the implementation of the Mau Task Force report, completed in 2008.

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