Nearly 10, 000 people living on the Elgeyo escarpment want the government to resettle them; their main activity is farming and charcoal burning which has deforested the area leading to an increase in landslide.
Keiyo South MP Daniel Rono says [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]"I will petition Parliament to have some forest land hived off so it can be used to settle the people,"
[COLOR=rgb(65, 168, 95)]"Our people are ready to surrender their parcels of land at the escarpment as long as they are given land in a safe area. [COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)]He said trees should be planted in the area [COLOR=rgb(251, 160, 38)][SIZE=5]after[/SIZE][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)] the people have been relocated to avoid more landslides.
People can be so foolish till you want to weep on their behalf; some MPs misleading the people, they think it is a favour they are doing to government by moving out of the sliding land!!! … government can then return after they depart with buckets to fill up the holes they uprooted the trees from.
MP Rono, please give us a break! Is it the responsibility of government to plant trees on people’s private farms?
If they hive off part off the forest, will the people not cut all the trees as well, for charcoal burning and farming?
Where else will the government move them to next?
As an elected MP Rono should have his boots on, hit the ground running, mobilising the people to plant trees on all their farms. Educate them on the consequences of deforestation and how to replenish trees?
Landslides are occurring in so many places across the county, Gov has already taken action against cutting trees in forests.
What good point does the MP have? to relocate a problem elsewhere. What do you mean by “their” good land? If people are not educate about the consequences of cutting trees, what will stop more landslides in Kerio forest? Areas which are hilly with very steep slopes are experiencing the same problem. Should they all be relocated to some forest land?
Perhaps a national disaster preparedness strategy is required, especially due to the increase in faulting land fracturing. Government to earmark land it ought to be able to take at short notice to resettle people. We have large acreages usually owned by absentee landlords, in the safest areas which can be put into use.
We have ranches in Uasin gishu county, resettle the people there instead of the forest , but some of the people along the hanging valley are squatters on public land, Leon Spenser a colonial agricultural Officer who drew a boundary line back in the 50’s dubbed the Spenser line, all the people beyond that are in government land all round the Kerio valley escarpment.
I’ve been meaning to ask this swali for the sake of knowledge. Assuming you dig a deep pit and plant your tree, I’m talking about 5 feet pit hivi. Will that tree grow or will it die? I’m talking about planting a seedling.
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