Residents during the official launch of the erection of a beacon at Sururu in Eastern Mau on April 28, 2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] The government is paying for the resettlement plunder of allowing families to occupy parts of the Eastern Mau Forest in the 1990s. The government’s decision to excise 35,301 hectares from the Mau Forest in 2001 has led to prolonged legal battles. In what seemed to have been an acknowledgment of a potential misstep in opening forest land for settlement, the government has been trying to reverse the situation through mass evictions to pave the way for conservation.…