By Alphayo Otieno
Tension and discontent is high within the Lake Victoria South Water Services Board (LVSWSB) over what stakeholders describe as “high level graft” among the top management.
And it is now feared that that unless the contentious issues at the board that covers an area of 23000 Km2 comprising 18 administrative districts in Nyanza and [...]

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BY EVELYNE NJOROGE
A civil society organisation has said that it will move to court this week to seek an injunction against the intended payout of billions of shillings as compensation to powerful people with huge tracts of land in the Mau Forest.
Kenyans for Justice and Development Convener Okoiti Omtata said on Sunday that they would [...]

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Kosgey accuses Ruto of undermining ODM
 
Cabinet minister Henry Kosgey has blamed a fellow minister from Rift Valley Province for financing some civic leaders in parts of the region to wreck ODM party and undermine Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Mr Kosgey said “several civic leaders among them civic bosses from the Rift Valley province have been holding [...]

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Revealed: Details of Mau payout scheme
By PETER LEFTIE and MUCHEMI WACHIRA
In Summary
•Only 1,900 families are sure to get cash or land, says a new government roadmap
More than 5,000 families will leave the Mau Forest without compensation, according to a new government document.
A paper prepared by the interim secretariat coordinating the rehabilitation of the water tower [...]

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BY LABAN WANAMBISI
Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Friday that the Interim Coordinating Secretariat of the Mau Forest Complex is mandated with forming a work programme for line ministries that are involved in the reclamation of the water tower.
Speaking during its inauguration, the PM said the 12-man team’s specific terms of reference are; to coordinate [...]

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Raila to launch Mau secretariat
BY JUDIE KABERIA
Prime Minister Raila Odinga is on Friday expected to launch a Coordinating Secretariat of the Mau Forest Complex.
A statement from his office on Wednesday indicated that the meeting will convene stakeholders from ministries concerned with Water, Environment and Agriculture among others.
“The Secretariat will bring together key ministries that will [...]

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ODM united, says Kenya Premier
BY PM PRESS SERVICE
KONOIN, Kenya,  - Prime Minister Raila Odinga has dispelled speculation that a rift is brewing among the Orange Democratic Movement leadership due to indifferences dogging the conservation of the Mau forest complex.
He ruled out any possibilities of fallout and insisted that the party was stronger and united despite [...]

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BY PMPS
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has put the perpetrators of excision in the five water towers on notice and reiterated the government’s determination to restore the depleted eco system at all cost.
He warned on Thursday that punitive measures were likely to be taken against those opposing government efforts to rehabilitate the conservancy zones as majority [...]

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BY PMPS
NAROK: The government will compensate all settlers in the Mau forest complex with less than ten acres of land regardless of the legitimacy of their title holdings, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said on Sunday.
He said that due to the circumstances under which some peasants acquired land on willing buyer and willing seller basis, considerations [...]

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Raila rails at Ruto, Uhuru
By: KIPNGENO RUTO.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has rebuffed threats by politicians from Rift Valley province that he will lose their political support if he goes ahead with plans to evict people who have settled in the Mau Forest Complex without compensation. “I am ready to pay the price for my stand [...]

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