From: sang kip

By Chris Lang, 19th November 2009 [ Read Reuters online of November 19, 2009]

One villager told The Standard that “The Government must look for alternative land to resettle us lest it creates a crisis worse than that of post-election violence IDPs [internally displaced persons].” But Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga said yesterday, “The government is saying: ‘Get out and go back where you came from’. But they have refused to go home and they are blackmailing the government to give them free land.”

In July 2009, Odinga announced that the Ogiek would be arrested if they did not leave their ancestral lands in the Mau Forest