Mau settlers should not be settled, they should be legally helped to claim their money back and buy land elsewhere. The water catchment on MAU is our common natural resource a few illegal settlers have occupied for many years, causing chaos and starvation downstream leading to a great degradation of our common environment. In my opinion, the problem is not if the government of Kenya (GOK) will settle the evicted MAU settlers, the question is, if the GOK is ready to settler land crisis in Kenya?
The original land crimes committed against first and foremost, the Maasai people of Kenya is a hot potato which must be cooled down in the best just, moral and legal way possible, to avoid recurring damages it creates from one generation to another!
If you settle MAU illegal SETTLERS then the GOK will have legitimized fraud, theft, manipulation and environmental degradation resulting from over-exploitation of MAU for many years now. As a measure to rectification, GOK, through legal measures should help settlers from MAU to get back their funds from the MAU sellers.
I suppose MOI will be in trouble OR KENYATTA?? The MAU SETTLERS CAN at ANY time, buy themselves land elsewhere in Kenya. Returning the illegal title deeds from MAU ought to be controlled with at most care to ensure that justice is done for people who were defrauded by illegal land sellers. After all, Kenyans who bought land at MAU were innovative Kenyans who wanted nothing more than an ample share to provide a better life for their children.
They should not be criminalized or hated but supported to sue the real land criminals who parasite on the ignorance and good faith of our people!
There is no doubt in my mind that MAU must be preserved for the whole GLOBE not just for Maasai down-streamers.:).
In the constitution draft, WHITE HIGHLANDS CRIMES MUST BE RECTIFIED. I AM THINKING VERY MUCH ON IDLE LAND AT LAIKIPIA and the great population increase! Check the last Census DATA!
Excessive land owned by individuals or absentee land owners MUST BE BOUGHT OFF BY THE GOK AND DIVIDED TO LAIKIPIAK. ANYTHING LESS, IS NOT A SOLUTION BUT A CARRY FORWARD OF THE HISTORIC CRIME TO COMING GENERATIONS.
Another forth coming crime is THE METROPOLITAN ISSUE. This step is to paralyze the “autonomy” of the local Kajiado council for example.. I beg to be advised more here. This CRIME MUST BE PREVENTED. Moreover, TAKING AWAY MAASAI COMMUNAL GRAZING LANDS MUST BE PREVENTED. MAASAI GRAZING LAND IS NOT IDLE. If anybody things it is, think again. All Maasai children are landless! Not a single child is registered as A LAND owner as much as I know.
I am a landless 35 YEAR ADULT as well as any Maa person I know, younger than my father, who is 62 years old. My father’s generation is the last to be registered as co-owner of communal land property IN MAASAILAND. When shall I get my piece of cake in Kenya?
Now that I am saving money so that I may develop my portion of LAND AS an inheritance for my children? Is it only me who is getting frustrated? Or am I breaking the natural law that land shall never be transformed into a transferable or merchandised property?
I keep on dreaming THAT MAA people should change the method of land ownership! , MAASAI YOUTH MUST BE ALLOCATED LAND FROM COMMUNAL LAND HENCE DISSOLVING COMMUNAL LAND OWNERSHIP SYSTEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. IT MIGHT BE THE REASON FOR DEVELOPMENT STAGNATION AT MAASAILAND.
FAILURES TO DO THIS, MAASAI COMING GENERATIONS will continue the same suffering we are going through today. They will question all what we did and why we never worked at least for ourselves in not for them
To me, it’s a BAD SCENARIO FOR KENYA today and Kenya tomorrow. THE RESPONSIBILITY IS RIGHT NOW On TINGA’S AND NDURURU’S SHOULDERS.
Saidimu Ole Ngais.
