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Elder Lister
The octogenarian says that while his father moved to the now-disputed Macalder land in Nyatike Sub- County, Migori County in Kenya’s lake region, only to work for white settlers over a century ago, he ended up finding a permanent home there and started his family right there.
He knows where his father hailed from, but there is no home for him there. In this place, he schooled, married, and had children, and grandchildren. Even his parents are buried right there.
His home is almost at the very centre of the 2,490 hectares recently gazetted by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry as ‘forest land’, a move which essentially rendered thousands of people residing there homeless, or about to be.
Some 5 kilometres from his home, at Osiri-Matanda trading centre, which is also on the supposed ‘forest land’, Fanuel Adek, 73, also a resident of Macalder, can barely concentrate on his day job of mining, knowing he might soon have to move.
“Where will I go? I was born here, and this is where I have lived all my life. At this age, where will I find the money to buy land somewhere else and move my entire family?” Mr Adek poses.
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He knows where his father hailed from, but there is no home for him there. In this place, he schooled, married, and had children, and grandchildren. Even his parents are buried right there.
His home is almost at the very centre of the 2,490 hectares recently gazetted by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry as ‘forest land’, a move which essentially rendered thousands of people residing there homeless, or about to be.
Some 5 kilometres from his home, at Osiri-Matanda trading centre, which is also on the supposed ‘forest land’, Fanuel Adek, 73, also a resident of Macalder, can barely concentrate on his day job of mining, knowing he might soon have to move.
“Where will I go? I was born here, and this is where I have lived all my life. At this age, where will I find the money to buy land somewhere else and move my entire family?” Mr Adek poses.
Forest with no name threatens to uproot locals in Western Kenya
Residents say they have nowhere to go with some having spend as many as eight decades at the only place they call home for them and their ancestors.
www.theeastafrican.co.ke
Climate Change is a scam, and will only benefit the rich at the expense of the poor