Controversial city lawyer Miguna Miguna has once again hit out at President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family over the destruction of Mau forest.
Miguna who was deported from Kenya to Canada in March 2018 claimed that Timsales company owned by the first family was the worst and largest logger and destroyer of Kenyan forests and in specific the Mau Water Tower.
“Timsales, the worst and largest logger and destroyer of Kenyan forests and the Mau Water Tower belong to Despot Uhuru Kenyatta and his family.” read part of Miguna’s statement on Facebook.
Miguna who has been a fierce critic of the handshake team since his deportation also questioned why some influential individuals who had taken part in grabbing thousands of acres from Mau water tower had not been evicted saying that the government was only brutalizing and humiliating peasants.
‘The more than 30,000 acres of forest and public land on which Daniel Moi’s Kiptagich Tea Farm, Isaac Ruto’s and Cheryot’s huge farms sit were grabbed from the Mau Water Tower yet these land-grabbers aren’t being evicted. Only peasants are being brutalized and humiliated.” continued Miguna.
He also added that Uhuru Kenyatta’s ‘fake’ war with his deputy William Ruto should not be used to mask the persecution of ordinary Kenyans and protect cartels belonging to the Kenyatta and Moi families who according to him were destroying Kenya’s forests and grabbing public land.
Miguna’s sentiments came just a few hours after the government on Tuesday through Nakuru County Commissioner Erastus Mbui announced that it had reversed its earlier directive to close 15 primary schools in the complex.
The government said it had taken the decision in order to allow the affected students to sit their national exams at the end of the term.
Among those leaders from the Rift Valley region who have been leading against Mau forest evictions include Senate majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen, Kericho county Governor Paul Chepkwony, former Bomet governor Isaac Ruto, Belgut MP Nelson Koech, Emurua Dikirr MP Johanna Ng’eno among other leaders from the region.