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Oil prospects fuel disputes between Elgeyo Marakwet clans

Clansmen demonstrate in Keiyo against another clan over communal land at the centre of oil exploration in Kerio Valley.  [PHOTO: FRED KIBOR/ STANDARD]

By Fred Kibor and Edwin Cheserek

Hopes of oil being discovered in Elgeyo/Marakwet County has split local clans down the middle. The clans are now engaged in disputes over land.

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