By ERIC MATARAMore by this AuthorLeaders of the Ogiek have asked President Uhuru Kenyatta to respect a continental court judgment that indicted the government for driving the indigenous community out of the Mau Forest. After an eight-year legal battle, the Arusha-based African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled on Friday that the government had violated the rights and freedoms of the Ogiek by driving them out of their ancestral lands. The court asked the Ogiek to file their requests for reparations within two months. In an interview with the Nation today, the executive director of the Ogiek People’s Development Programme (OPDP), Mr Daniel Kobei, termed the judgment historic and urged the government to have it implemented fully. The case was initially lodged by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights.

Source: Daily Nation May 28, 2017 16:07 UTC