Laikipia crisis

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The Laikipia Crisis and the
Disenfranchisement of Kenyans in the
North
May 18, 2017
by GitauMbaria
21 minread
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The widely publicised recent invasions of wildlife conservancies in Laikipia County in Kenya
have often been framed as conflicts between pastoralist communities and conservationists.
However, the conflicts in Laikipia and elsewhere in northern Kenya ought to be looked at as a
national security issue exacerbated by historical land injustices and the pursuit of an
inappropriate conservation model that relegates the true owners of the resources to the
periphery.
It is instructive that the state has identified environmental degradation as constituting a threat
to national security. This was highlighted in a story published in the Sunday Nation on May 7,
2017 on Kenya’s plans to expand the military. Quoting from The National Defence Policy, the
reporter stated that the government had identified environmental degradation as one of the
threats to Kenya’s security.
This admission is significant because for a long time the country has taken for granted fatal
consequences of wanton destruction of forests, rivers, habitats, ecosystems, as well as serious
erosion of biological diversity. How individual actions affect the environment appears not to
preoccupy most people’s minds in the country. Collectively though, such injurious individual
actions result in a situation that has far-reaching implications, not just on the well-being of the

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environment or inability of ecosystems to supply life-nurturing environmental resources to
citizens, but also on the security of the country.
On its part, the state has kept making one policy pronouncement after another without putting
in place the necessary resources and personnel to implement the policies or to whip everyone
into line. For many years now, the discord between what is said in official statements and
what is done by citizens, companies and the state itself has given rise to serious crises. This
greatly affects the lives and livelihoods of millions of Kenyans, some of whom opt for extra-
legal measures to stay alive.
Many have gone on to equate Laikipia to the Biblical Eden; “it represents a lost Eden in
European settler thinking, epitomised by the writings of Kuki Gallman, which are infused
with an imagined sense of entitlement to and identification with her adopted land.”
Added to this is the long-running official neglect of arid and semi-arid areas of the country.
Individuals and organisations that constitute the country’s conservation fraternity have
capitalised on officialdom’s disinterest by experimenting with a conservation model that is
harmful to the communities there. With financial support from multilateral and bilateral
donors, as well as big-bucks international NGOs, the fraternity has literary taken over and has
been running not just conservation, but also security, livestock marketing and conflict
resolution in a manner that greatly interferes with the sovereignty of the communities that
claim ownership of the land there.
This sad state of affairs is epitomised by the fact that one organization, Northern Rangelands
Trust (NRT), openly claims that it has brought into conservation a whopping 44,000 km2 of
the lands in the upper Rift, north and coastal regions. The reaction to what happens there and
how it affects the rights of the communities to their lands and resources, as well as how this
translates into the apparent insecurity in Laikipia and elsewhere in the north, ought to be seen
as social reverberations of historical land injustices and official neglect.
The historical narrative
In Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure, Lotte Hughes paints a picture of pastoralist
communities disinherited from their land on two different occasions in 1904 and 1911. The
British author says that between 1904 and 1905, colonial authorities forcibly moved the
Maasai people from their favourite grazing grounds between Naivasha and Nakuru into two
reserves in order to make way for white settlement. Laikipia was one of the reserves while the
other was in the south, on the border with Tanzania. According to Hughes, this was done
following the 1904 Maasai Agreement through which the community was promised that it
could keep the reserved areas “so long as the Maasai as a race shall exist.” She writes that the
British did not honour their promise but went on to move the Maasai again seven years later
“at gunpoint from Laikipia to an extended southern Maasai reserve.” More than 20,000 people
and not less than 2.5 million livestock were moved between 1911 and 1913. All this was done
mainly to pave way for white settlers, although, as Hughes says, there were other extraneous
reasons, including the desire by the colonial administration to concentrate the Maasai in one
reserve in order to better rule over them and to impose taxes. Consequently, the Maasai lost
between 50% and 70% of the land they occupied before 1904.
Since the second “move” was implemented, the Maasai have maintained that this was not an
“agreement” per se as their leaders signed it under heavy duress and coercion. “This
effectively rendered the first Agreement void,” writes Hughes. This supports the intermittent

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claims made by activists from the community that they have a legal claim over the land now
occupied by the mainly white ranchers in Laikipia.
The campaign for redress for this historical injustice reached a crescendo in the early 2000s
when the community, led by the defunct Osirigi NGO and people like the late Elijah Marima
Sempeta, intensified calls for a return of the lost lands. The latter was a young lawyer who
travelled to Britain and unearthed documentary evidence ascertaining that the leases given to
the white ranchers had come to an end and that time had come for the ownership of the land to
revert to the local community. Following a spirited campaign, the matter fizzled out after
Sempeta was murdered outside his home in Ngong Town in circumstances that remain
unexplained. However, the push appears to have borne fruit when lease periods were lowered
from 999 years to 99 years in Kenya’s 2010 constitution.
Defeating the land rights campaign
The white lessees of the land in Laikipia have adopted a multi-pronged counter-campaign and
have shown – in words and deeds – that they are not ready to forfeit the land. According to
Hughes, many have gone on to equate Laikipia to the Biblical Eden; “it represents a lost Eden
in European settler thinking, epitomised by the writings of Kuki Gallman, which are infused
with an imagined sense of entitlement to and identification with her adopted land.”
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In Land Deals in Kenya: The Genesis of Land Deals in Kenya and its Implication on Pastoral
Livelihoods – A Case Study of Laikipia District, 2011, John Letai says that Laikipia has
“profound inequalities” in land ownership, with 40.3% of the land being controlled by 48
individuals. Among the biggest landowners in Laikipia include Gallman, whose Ol Ari Nyiro
ranch is said to be 100,000 acres. Other large ranches include the Ol Pejeta ranch (92,000
acres) that was once associated with Saudi billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and the
Ol Jogi ranch (67,000 acres) owned by the late French billionaire art dealer
Daniel Wildenstein. But even with this kind of inequality, it has been apparent that the
ranchers cannot countenance the idea of ever giving up the giant parcels of land to the original
owners. Some have been offloading the land to other rich people (some of whom are
foreigners) while top business and political elites in the country have also increasingly
acquired land there.
The white lessees of the land in Laikipia have adopted a multi-pronged counter-campaign and
have shown – in words and deeds – that they are not ready to forfeit the land.
Another approach has been to front the sprawling ranches as important wildlife conservation
areas. Targeted in this approach is a powerful and moneyed audience in the West that has
contributed immensely to support wildlife conservation in cash and kind. Initially, the white
ranchers had not taken wildlife conservation as seriously. For a long time, many had taken to
large-scale livestock keeping but later realised that they stood to gain much more by
converting their properties to either mixed livestock-and-wildlife areas or to exclusive wildlife
conservation zones. They appear to have been inspired by arguments put forward by people
such as Dr. David Western, a former Kenya Wildlife Service director, who championed the

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parks-beyond-parks concept, as well as the outcome of the 2003 World Parks Congress
organised by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Durban, South Africa. According to
Dr Mordecai Ogada, a former chief executive of the Laikipia Wildlife Forum, the central
theme and message coming out of the Congress was “benefits beyond boundaries”.
“The model that proposed establishment of conservancies outside protected areas … gained
immediate currency and caught the eye of donors as well as statutory agencies like the Kenya
Wildlife Service, which were keen to gain more habitat for wildlife and secure reservoir
wildlife populations that could augment those in parks via wildlife corridors,” says Dr. Ogada.
He says that this led to a “carefully laid out and presented plan” to secure the future of
wildlife in these vast lands and to get financial support from private and institutional donors.
To avoid paying taxes and to continue enjoying the largesse of global supporters of wildlife
conservation, many of the Laikipia ranchers registered their conservancies as non-profit
organisations. Today, Ian Craig’s Lewa Conservancy and Kuki Gallman’s Ol-Ari Nyiro
Conservancy are registered as non-profit outfits. However, this is a misnomer because many
of them run exclusive, high-end lodges and camps that charge tens of thousands of shillings
daily to tourists. For instance, with 12 tents that can accommodate 26 guests, Lewa Safari
Camp located in the Lewa Downs charges between Ksh15,500 ($155) and Ksh42,600 ($426)
per night depending on the season.
The plot thickens
Getting the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) to
give world heritage status to the ranches is the third approach adopted by the ranch owners.
The secret scheme to have UNESCO play ball is aimed at enabling the ranchers to maintain a
lasting claim on the land and, therefore, “eternally” defeat any campaign to have it revert to
the Maasai community. So far, this is a feat that only Lewa Conservancy has attained. The
60,000-acre ranch was given this status in 2013, as an extension of the Mount Kenya World
Heritage Site together with the Ngare Ndare Forest, which is also in Laikipia.
However, there are those who say that the elevation of Lewa was an anomaly because
according to the World Heritage Convention, the duty of ensuring the identification,
protection and conservation of cultural and natural heritage sites “belongs primarily” to the
state. In addition, Article 5(4) of the convention burdens states with the funding and the
protection of such sites, besides coming up with laws to protect them. Further, Article 6(3)
states: “Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to take any deliberate measures
which might damage directly or indirectly the cultural and natural heritage.”
Nevertheless, Lewa’s success appears to have encouraged others with huge ranches, some
which were constituted through the NRT, to seek similar status for their property. According
to what I found out, the ranchers commenced this in 2014 when 24 wildlife conservancies and
private game ranches made applications to be included in the world database of protected
areas. These include Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Segera, Solio Ranch, Ol-jogi Ranch, Kisima
Farm and Ol Ari Nyiro Ranch (see: https://protectedplanet.net/ ).
“There is a rush to create a super big protected area stretching from Lewa to Solio – all of it
under the cover of Word Heritage Convention,” says Njenga Kahiro, a former Project Officer
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If this goes through, it will mean that the conservancies and ranches will be declared of
outstanding universal value and natural beauty. It is also bound to have far-reaching
implications for Kenya, which is a signatory to the World Heritage Convention. Formulated in
1972, the Convention protects the world’s cultural and natural heritage. In essence, the
ranchers appear to be putting forward the argument that the land is special and only its present
owners can be trusted to keep it that way. But this has attracted criticism from members of the
Maasai community. “This is a misplaced idea and it will receive serious challenges and
resistance from human rights and indigenous people,” said Mali Ole Kaunga, the director of
IMPACT, an NGO based in Laikipia County. Ole Kaunga accuses the ranch owners of
“hiding behind international conventions…in order to get the Kenya government to protect
them as it is obliged to by the Convention.”
Laikipia has “profound inequalities” in land ownership, with 40.3% of the land being
controlled by 48 individuals.
Eustace Gitonga, the director of the Community Museums of Kenya, says that this will
prevent Kenya from ever changing the use of such a vast segment of its real estate. “This will
mean that Kenya cannot access any mineral wealth suspected to be in these lands.” Gitonga
believes that this will also affect Kenya’s sovereign right to decide on how best to use its
resources.
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Other dynamics have also set in to further disenfranchise the pastoralist communities. This
includes acquisition of large parcels of land by top politicians and rich people, from different
ethnic groups in Kenya. Added to this is the phenomenon of absentee landlords and the
resettlement of smallholders, mainly from the Kikuyu community, there. According to Letai,
today, smallholder farms constitute 22.21% of the land. Many of the owners of the small
farms have abandoned their parcels, as ascertained by a study done in 2013 titled The
Abandoned Lands of Laikipia Land Use Options Study). A whopping 238,000 acres have been
abandoned by some 85,000 titleholders, most of whom live elsewhere.
The absentee landowners, who were settled there by the first independent government under
the late President Jomo Kenyatta, ended up using the land as collateral to acquire loans,
mainly from the Agricultural Development Corporation. Letai says that there has been a rush
to buy off the land from the absentee land owners. “Former commercial ranch managers are
identifying the title holders of the absentee lands to convince them to consolidate their
holdings and sell them to foreign diplomats, aid workers and even some former Zimbabwean
white farmers. He adds that after purchasing the land, the latter have been fencing them which
“has created tension with the Maasai and other pastoralists who have been using this land over
a long period of time.
NRT’s approach
This situation is compounded by the fact that the inappropriate conservation approach and, to
some extent, the goings-on in the private ranches of Laikipia, is replicated in the sprawling
communally-owned lands within Laikipia and neighbouring counties. Northern Rangelands

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Trust has been championing the well-oiled conservation initiative, arguing that it enables
communities to get revenue from conservation activities, promotes security in the north and
has been facilitating the mainly pastoralist communities to put in place grazing plans that
lessen their vulnerability to frequent and severe droughts occasioned by climate change. The
organisation further says that it is involved in bringing more lands into wildlife conservation
through the development of strong community-led institutions and that this forms the basis for
investment in tourism and community development. NRT-inspired community conservancies
have now spread across Laikipia, Samburu, Isiolo, Marsabit, Baringo/East Pokot, Garissa,
Tana River and Lamu counties.
The largesse extended to the NRT is large and extensive to say the least. For instance, last
November, the United States government channelled, through the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), some Ksh2 billion (US $20 million) in a new five-year
scheme meant to expand NRT’s operations in 33 conservancies in Kenya’s coastal and
northern regions. According to NRT’s website, the conservancies now cover 10.8 million
acres (or 44,000km2) of the country and are spread across 11 counties. Announcing the grant,
US ambassador Robert Godec said it was meant to “support the work of community rangers,
conserve wildlife and fisheries, and improve livelihoods and advance women’s enterprises.”
The NRT was started in 2004 by Craig, with the initial aim of raising funds to aid the
formation and running of wildlife conservancies. Its website says it supports the training of
relevant communities and helps to “broker agreements between conservancies and investors.”
It also says that it provides donors with “a degree of oversight and quality assurance.” Besides
the US, the organisation’s activities are heavily funded by the Danish Development Agency
(DANIDA), The Nature Conservancy (a US-based international NGO) and the French
government’s Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD). Other financiers include Fauna &
Flora International, Zoos South Australia, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ of Germany), US Fish and Wildlife Service, San Diego Zoo,
International Elephant Foundation, Saint Louis Zo, and Running Wild.
However, it is the massive grants from USAID and Tullow Oil, the British company that has
struck oil in Turkana County, which has attracted curious interest from observers who believe
that there’s more than is being said in official communication. Pundits say that NRT’s
approach affects communities negatively. According to Dr Ogada, the launch of community
conservancies “began the mass disenfranchisement of communities in the name of
conservation, and the rest is history.”
“Conservation is a noble cause, but like all other sectors, should be properly regulated. Kenya
is currently failing to do that.”
In an interview with this writer, Michael Lalampaa, an official with the Higher Education
Loans Board who hails from Samburu County, said that “even when droughts occur,
pastoralists cannot access part of their lands that are now set aside for wildlife conservation
and which constitute the community conservancies.” Indeed, many of the NRT-inspired
community conservancies visited by this writer in late December 2016 had set aside big
portions of the community lands as exclusive wildlife areas (or core areas). Some of these
zones have better ecological characteristics and impressive landscapes favoured by tourists.
Lalampaa complains that NRT compels communities to set aside the best portions of their
lands for the exclusive use of wildlife and investors subsequently lease it to set up tourist
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What is interesting, as this writer found during a tour of the Kurikuri Conservancy close to
Mukogondo forest, is that the NRT not only brokers the investment agreements, but has also
insisted on having its employees as some of the signatories of conservancies’ bank accounts.
More alarming, the community in Kurikuri is required to meet some of the costs of running
the lodges, which eats deeply into the cash they get from leasing out their land and from each
of the tourists who visit the conservancy.
To ensure that the operations within the conservancies have the support of relevant
communities, NRT has identified and co-opted local leaders and elites who aid in persuading
the pastoralists to set aside land for conservation. As a result, some of the prominent
personalities within the Samburu, Borana, Maasai and Rendile communities are on the NRT’s
board.
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Drought part of the problem
Although the prolonged drought that ended last month is believed to have triggered the recent
invasions of ranches and conservancies in Laikipia, there are claims that some of the
pastoralist communities there have unwittingly locked themselves out of parts of their lands
through the conservancy agreements. “Once the agreements are put in place, it becomes
impossible for the herders to access pastures in the conservancies as they are confronted by
armed scouts who kick them out. It is sad that at times, livestock end up dying simply because
their owners cannot graze them in what used to be their lands,” says Lalampaa.
The setting aside of huge sections of community ranches (which is facilitated by the NRT) for
conservation purposes has created a dilemma for the communities and is proving to worsen
rather than diminish insecurity, particularly in the upper eastern and northern Kenya regions.
According to media reports, the alienation of land has contributed to the hardships suffered by
local pastoralists, especially during the current prolonged dry spell. Reports paint a worrisome
picture of members of communities invading either the areas they had earlier set aside or
other private game ranches. For instance, armed herdsmen invaded the ranch belonging to
Will Jennings, a mixed race Kenyan, resulting in a shootout between members of the Rapid
Deployment Unit of the Kenya Police and the rangers. Other ranches invaded recently include
the Loisaba Conservancy and Sera Conservancies established by the pastoralists, the 50,000-
acre Segera Ranch owned by Jochen Zeitz, a former CEO of the Puma sports brand, and the
Sosian and Galmann ranches. So far, one rancher, Tristan Voorspuy, has been killed in Sosian
Ranch, while Gallmann is still recovering in hospital after being shot by herders.
NRT’s security apparatus
Although the government has moved its security machinery into Laikipia, the long-running
insecurity in Laikipia and other parts of the north is an indictment on its ability to pacify these
areas. It is also apparent that the NRT has “filled the gap” by establishing a security apparatus
that is considered one of the most controversial aspects of the organisation’s activities. On its
website, the organisation says that it carries out anti-poaching operations, wildlife monitoring
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rustling and road banditry.” NRT says that each conservancy has a team of uniformed rangers
that are “employed by the communities and trained with support from NRT”. By 2014, there
were some 645 such rangers.
Additional information posted on the organisation’s website shows that the rangers are given
basic training by KWS personnel at the wildlife agency’s Manyani Training School. There,
they learn “bush craft skills, as well as how to effectively gather and share intelligence,
monitor wildlife and manage combat situations.” According to information posted on the
website of the NGO Save the Rhino, some rangers have been given Kenya Police Reserve
accreditation and “sufficient weapons handling training.” Such advanced training is done by
51 Degrees, a company associated with Batian Craig, the son of Ian Craig. Among the
specifics of the training include tactical movement with weapons, ambush and anti-ambush
drills, handling and effective usage of night-vision and thermal-imaging equipment and
ground-to-air communications and coordination. The rangers are also taken through what is
called “typical training of different operations in war situation”, as well as observation,
stalking, camouflage and concealment, judging distance and map reading. NRT has also
launched patrol boats for security operations in its coastal chapter, which has now benefitted
from USAID’s finances.
The crisis is worsened by the pursuit of an inappropriate conservation model that has resulted
in more disenfranchisement of the local people and led to rising incidences of severe drought
as a result of climate change. The crisis is further exacerbated by neglect by the state and its
unwillingness to stamp its authority in these areas –which has given undeserving space and
say to the NRT and its foreign supporters.
“This formidable armed force is under the overall control of a CEO who is a civilian and isn’t
even a citizen of this country,” said Dr. Ogada. He added that by allowing this to happen,
KWS “has effectively abdicated its wildlife protection role” to the NRT.
Dr. Ogada believes that the immense foreign and private control over such a large proportion
of the country’s resources and citizens calls for more overt dialogue and regulation.
“Conservation is a noble cause, but like all other sectors, should be properly regulated. Kenya
is currently failing to do that.” He adds that the sheer geographical, financial, cultural and
political scale of this intervention calls for a lot more thought than has been given to it thus far.
It is apparent that the crisis in Laikipia and other areas in Northern Kenya is a multifaceted
one that defies a simple explanation. It has its origins in historical land injustices that have not
been addressed even after Kenya became independent. The crisis is worsened by the pursuit
of an inappropriate conservation model that has resulted in more disenfranchisement of the
local people and led to rising incidences of severe drought as a result of climate change. The
crisis is further exacerbated by neglect by the state and its unwillingness to stamp its authority
in these areas –which has given undeserving space and say to the NRT and its foreign
supporters.
To address this crisis, all players must come together to examine, in a holistic and
comprehensive manner, issues related to land ownership and use, security, economic well-
being of the people, and vulnerability of the local communities to adverse effects of climate
change, among other issues. The state must also pacify these areas, not merely by sending the
police or members of the Kenya Defence Forces, but also by starting social and economic
projects in a manner that will establish a meaningful and lasting economic footprint there.

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By Gitau Mbaria
(Gitau Mbaria is a freelance writer, journalist author and researcher.)
This discussion is getting so crazy so fast! You are so wrong on the NRT model, seriously it's
dangerous saying what you are saying vs what is actually on the ground! Please talk to actual
NRT community people, they would find some of your thoughts condescending even. I like
that this conversation is happening but Lord are the facts getting mixed up or what!
ArkanudDin YaSin JeffWaweru • 8 days ago
"NRT Model"? Are you in so deep?
JeffWaweru ArkanudDin YaSin • 7 days ago
What does calling it a model and being in deep have to do with each other? I do not
work with or for NRT, I just happen to live in the landscape and have watched this
unfold for years. There are major injustices in this landscape, but the conversation has
to be 100% fact driven.
ArkanudDin YaSin JeffWaweru • 6 days ago
A victim of rape will NEVER submit it "...he gained Forced Unlawful Carnal
Knowledge of me". Language is a powerful tool in sanitizing crime and evil.
Capitalism by simply terming "Theft of Public Funds" "Corruption" powerfully
shields elites from the public lynching accorded to normal thieves, which is what they
are. It is simply theft. So they are not only safe from direct public retribution but they
even have "special courts" :) "special jails".
This is the power of language.
Therefore terming direct imperialist primitive accumulation of land as "NFT Model"
reveals you to either be Colonialist, Colonizer or Comprador (House Negro)

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JeffWaweru ArkanudDin YaSin • 6 days ago
1. The article itself calls it a model, but if I repeat the same...
2. NRT does not own the land. So this accumulation you are talking about, sijui. The
communities can opt in/out of the collaborative effort. Google before you call me a
house nigger!
3. I never claimed the NRT model is faultless or that this entire piece is rubbish or
unwarranted. Let's discuss it's faults rather thas getting distracted by sensationalism.
4. Some info that you could have googled yourself before hurling insults:
NRT is governed by a Board of Directors, currently chaired by Hon. Mohamed Elmi
MP and vice chaired by Dr Hassan Wario, Cabinet Secretary for Sports, Culture and
the Arts. The NRT Board includes institutional membership from KWS, KFS, three
pioneering private conservancies, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of
Interior. NRT is accountable to an over-arching Council of Elders, which is comprised
of the elected chairpersons of all the member conservancies. The Council of Elders is
currently chaired by David Lekoomet (Kalama Conservancy), and vice chaired by
Omar Godana (Nasuulu Conservancy). NRT is guided and overseen by the NRT

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Council of Elders, which also includes institutional membership from KWS, County
Governments and other local partners and agencies.
NRT supports it members in a number of ways:
- It raises funds for the conservancies
- It provides them with advice on how to manage their affairs
- It supports a wide range of training and helps broker agreements between
conservancies and investors
- It monitors performance, providing donors with a degree of oversight and quality
assurance.
NRT is now widely seen as a model of how to support community conservancies. Its
success has helped shape new government regulations on establishing, registering and
managing community conservancies in Kenya.
JeffWaweru • 6 days ago
NRT, short for Northern Rangelands Trust, is governed by a Board of Directors, currently
chaired by Hon. Mohamed Elmi MP and vice chaired by Dr Hassan Wario, Cabinet Secretary
for Sports, Culture and the Arts. The NRT Board includes institutional membership from
KWS, KFS, three pioneering private conservancies, the Ministry of Environment and the
Ministry of Interior. NRT is accountable to an over-arching Council of Elders, which is
comprised of the elected chairpersons of all the member conservancies. The Council of Elders
is currently chaired by David Lekoomet (Kalama Conservancy), and vice chaired by Omar
Godana (Nasuulu Conservancy). NRT is guided and overseen by the NRT Council of Elders,
which also includes institutional membership from KWS, County Governments and other
local partners and agencies.
ArkanudDin YaSin • 8 days ago
Superb work!
What I would like to point out is the strength of this spider's web lies in its constituent
material, language and ideas. The entire system of disenfranchisement is being driven by a
false framework of ideas like "conservation""Climate change""development""improve
livelihoods". In other words, imperialists have invented terms which they are free to
define/extend/re-define and we (in our ignorance) contract each other (yoke ourselves) with,
absolutely.

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It is actually as weak as a spider web. As strange as it may sound, as soon as you reject the
"innovated definitions" you immediately start to see through the con, and it follows we would
immediately able to organize against it.
There wouldn't even be a war, because ten people cannot yoke a thousand people without the
thousand people consenting and enabling.
Delta4 • 8 days ago
This is one of the best investigative write-ups in existence today on this incredible carbuncle
of this continuance of Kenya's hateful Colonial legacy.
What these parasitic mzungus have forgotten is that their Colonialist forebearers were not
vanguished by force-of-arms, but the absolute moral superiority of the African sovereign right
over their ancestral lands, a mere 50 years ago.
That moral argument is still centre to this desperate situation in the so-called NRT Lands, and
will return a similar consequence of the defeat of thsse illegal white settlers and their insidious
agenda.
Kenyans will fight, as they have before, to reassert their sovereign right to their lands, and
hiding this satanic Colonial grab of these lands under UNESCO, NRT, BATUK, USAID, etc,
will not succeed in deflectling Kenyans resolve. Harambee!
JEFF WAWERU doesn't come across as an indigenous Kenyan, from the phonetics alone in
his post.
JeffWaweru Delta4 • 7 days ago
Kizungu/ kilami/ kiingereza sio ya wazungu pekee boss. It happens to be the language
I was taught in in the PUBLIC SCHOOLS I attended in kenya. So, peleka that upuuzi
back where you got it
JeffWaweru Delta4 • 7 days ago

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Phonetics? Eish, Kizungu kidogo ime ku confuse hivyo? Don't be so simple. I may be well
read but boss I am not among those who can afford land in kenya. I just happen to live and
work in Laikipia.
The injustices that are addressed here have probably hurt me more than they have done you. I
have experienced racial prejudice here and boss let me tell you, there is nothing like
experiencing racism in your own country. But I wouldn't want this conversation getting mixed
up with pseudo truths that will prevent it from moving forward or being dismissed by people
benefiting from the status quo.
Our history and the history of our leadership has taught us that the finer details of issues get
buried in noise and end up achieving nothing. Mismanagement of resources, greed, poor
governance and racial prejudice have indeed shaped the Kenya we live in today. This
important conversation is ripe but we must not let it be muddied so much that we cannot see
what our goal was in the first place.
We can't have a civil discussion without attacking each other?
NORTHERN RANGELANDS TRUST
(NRT) DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION
IAN CRAIG AWARDED ORDER OF THE
BRITISH EMPIRE (OBE)
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PRESS RELEASE
Northern Kenya’s Ian Craig was awarded a prestigious Order of the British Empire last week
by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to conservation and security to communities
in Kenya. The Queen’s Birthday Honours list was published on 10th June 2016, on the
occasion of Her Majesty’s official 90th birthday, and recognises the achievements of a wide
range of extraordinary people.
Raised in Kenya, Ian Craig converted his family’s 62,000-acre cattle ranch into a rhino
sanctuary at the peak of the elephant and rhino poaching epidemic. The rhino sanctuary
flourished at a time when few did, and later, it was re-established as the Lewa Wildlife
Conservancy. Ian’s vision propelled Lewa to great success, and the Conservancy has grown to
become a world-renowned catalyst and model for conservation that protects endangered
species and promotes the development of neighbouring communities.
Through Lewa, Ian began partnering with surrounding local communities to support
sustainable land management, conservation and peace efforts. Out of this, the Northern
Rangelands Trust (NRT) was born, and today supports 33 community conservancies across
northern Kenya.
Ian now serves as a Strategic Advisor for Lewa and Director of Conservation for NRT and
has built up invaluable trust and respect with the communities that he serves. The community
conservancies are governed by local people and are transforming the lives and landscapes of
northern Kenya. They are building peace in a historically tense region, have reduced elephant
poaching by 52% since 2012, and are rehabilitating large areas of degraded land for the
benefit of livestock and wildlife. NRT supports Conservancies with fundraising, advice and
training working closely with The Kenya Government and Lewa Wildlife Conservancy to
provide security for both wildlife and people in the region.

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IAN CHATS TO PASTORALISTS IN ISHAQBINI CONSERVANCY.IAN IS A TRUSTED AND WELL
RESPECTED FIGUREIN THE COMMUNITIESHER SERVES, HAVING SPENT OVER 30 YEARS INTHE
REGION.
“I feel that I am purely the nominee for many people’s support and hard work within Lewa
and NRT, including those who have lost their lives in this task. This is a big surprise which I
am most honoured to receive” said Ian.
This isn’t the first NRT and Lewa staff member to receive recognition from the British Royal
Family. In 2013, NRT’s Chief Programmes officer Tom Lalampaa received the Tusk Award
for Conservation in Africa from Prince William, a patron of the Tusk charity. In 2015, NRT
and Lewa’s Head of Security, Edward Ndiritu, received the Tusk Wildlife Ranger Award.
IAN FISHING WITH LOCAL FISHERMEN IN THE TANA RIVER
BPA Isiolo Chart.
30/05/2017, 11:57 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Aaguys.Asyouare aware I workfor NRT.The organizationthat
has beenunderalotof criticismfrom a sectionof the borana populace.Iresonate withsome of the
sentiments butothersare unfounded.IamproposingameetingbetweenNRTandthe leadershipof
the Borana includingthe professionalsfromthisgroup.Isuggestthatwe have 5 membersof this
groupbe part of thisteam that will includeelders,political leadersand opinionleaders.

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I hope thismeetingshall helpourpeople make aninformeddecisiononengagementwithNRT.There
are a numberof boranas workingforNRTand none of usis happywitheventsinthe recentpast
especiallywhenNRT isseentobe biased.
Is thisplausible?
ShouldIplanfor this?
What do youguys think?
30/05/2017, 12:02 - BPA Yussuf Tuse Jilo:Latif if I may askare you fromone of the communities
complainingaboutNRTandit's openinjustice metedagainstthe pastoralistpopulous?If notthen
justlike NRTyou maynot feel the pinchasyouare not the "wearer"of the shoe
30/05/2017, 12:04 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Iam a Boran withfamilyacrossthe entire pastoralistlandscape
30/05/2017, 12:04 - HusseinK.GolichaIsiolo:Ithinkthisis a goodideabutletthe professionalsmeet
firstto discussthe nittygrittyof NRT and itsoperationsandprogramme.Thismeetingwill prepare
workfor the politicianstoundertake.
30/05/2017, 12:05 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Anappropriate time forall involved
30/05/2017, 12:07 - +254 720 615220: The wordingwasinappropriate..Boranacommunityisyour
community...i thinkYussuf wasnotwrongwhenhe askedyourethnicity.
30/05/2017, 12:07 - MuminaBonayaIsiolo:Thisiswhat we need,thankbroforthe gesture,onemore
favourfromu as our son,whatdou knowthat will be importantforusto know en notmissout as we
prepare ourselvesforthisengagement?
30/05/2017, 12:07 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Thisismypersonal initiativeithasnothingtodo withmyJD
30/05/2017, 12:08 - Hon AdanMohamed:What isit that youresonate with,andwhatisit that is
'unfounded'?
30/05/2017, 12:08 - Latif NRT Isiolo:True.OurCommunity
30/05/2017, 12:09 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Yesthisisthe stepon the direction.Iearlieraddedyou
to helpuson some of the burningquestionsandissues.
30/05/2017, 12:10 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Idon'twant thisto be a back and forthpitingme and my own
people butrathera deliberationonthusideaandwhetheritssomethingthatwe cabexplore and
whatdo we needto doto make it fruitful forourpeople
30/05/2017, 12:12 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Letdiscussitoutside thisplatformforprivacyand
securityof the staff workingthere.

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30/05/2017, 12:16 - Latif NRT Isiolo:We can discussaboutthe ideahere.Noproblem
30/05/2017, 12:20 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:IsthisyourowninitiativesorNRTdirectiondue torecent
mediacoverage
30/05/2017, 12:20 - +254 720 615220: ThanksLatif forthe noble initiative.We shouldbe readyto
deliberateonbehalf of ourcommunity..
30/05/2017, 12:21 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Thisismyown.I owe it to mypeople andwill still be beneficial
for the organization
30/05/2017, 12:22 - MuminaBonayaIsiolo:Someone totake leadonthis
30/05/2017, 12:22 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Ok,asa staff,have youseenNRT double standard
againstBoran inregard to cattle rustling?
30/05/2017, 12:23 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:How theytoouse theirmachinerytoaidand train
SamburuagainstBorana?
30/05/2017, 12:24 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:How theirscoutdirectlyinvolvedinkillingof herders.
30/05/2017, 12:25 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:How theydotheirsurveilancetoaidSamburumorans
30/05/2017, 12:26 - HusseinK.GolichaIsiolo:IthinkLatif suggestdate andvenue todiscussthis
30/05/2017, 12:31 - BPA Yussuf Tuse Jilo:Saladmyquestionisvalidandstill unanswered.Not
comfortable tospill the beans.The subjectathandcallsfor more organizedandstructuredapproach
withidentificationof rightstakeholders (Landissue experts,Humanrightactivists,lawyers,
communal andpolitical leadership,ourchiefsandvillage elderswhoeasilysuccumbtocraigscash,
youthand womenprofessionals,variouslocal resource usersassociation,Dhedacommitteesetc).
Let's nothandle iteasilyatface value.Itcallsfor internal deliberationandunanimouspositiontaking
as communitythenwe canmeetthe culpritNRT
30/05/2017, 12:32 - Latif NRT Isiolo:NRTsecurityteamisonlydeployedunderdirectrequestfrom
the OCPD.The NRT teamhas membersfromSamburu,Boranaand Turkanacommunities.Theresno
waytheycan be misusedandthiswasdone deliberately.
The problemfrommyownunderstandingisnotNRTbut the fact that there exists1borana
conservancyandabout 7 samburuconservanciesinthe region.Thisdifference especiallyin
respondingtorustlingincidenceswillbe massive.Imagine7vehiclescomparedto1? The County
Governmentof Samburuhasestablished5more and bought5 vehiclesfurther. Thisisthe reality that
we operate in.
30/05/2017, 12:38 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Letsnotgetintothisbecause honestlyIcannotworkfor an
organizationthatstrainingpeopletokill myownpeople. Thisisunfounded
30/05/2017, 12:38 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Letsnotgetintothis because honestlyIcannotworkfor an
organizationthatstrainingpeopletokill myownpeople. Thisisunfounded
30/05/2017, 12:42 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Iagree aboutinvolvinglawyersproffesionalsandall butalso
involve NRT.Talktothemas well and as a communitywe can make an informed decision.

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30/05/2017, 12:45 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Iknow the implementorsare local conservancies
capacitatedbyNRT. Trainingof scouts,provisionof gunsandammunition( unmonitored) and
logistical support.
30/05/2017, 12:46 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Soletsworkoutonthe meeting,venue,participants.
30/05/2017, 12:46 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:We shall involve ourexperttoo.
30/05/2017, 12:49 - Latif NRT Isiolo:NRTdoesnotissue gunsor ammunitions
30/05/2017, 12:51 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Countme asone of yourexperts.Rizqcannotmake me sell my
people.Iama true sonof a great sonof a greaterson of the Borana
30/05/2017, 12:56 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo: 👌👌👌👌ok,thankyou.
30/05/2017, 12:56 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:We shall come toknow more
30/05/2017, 13:01 - Latif NRT Isiolo:INN SHAA ALLAH
30/05/2017, 15:23 - +254 722 234304: Latif thank youfor the initiative.mydearcolleagueswe need
to discussthisissue withsobermindandfasttrack the process.i suggestmeetingof Bpamembersto
identifyteamleadersinthisprocess,issuesfordiscussionandpreparationof memorandumif need
be
30/05/2017, 20:13 - IbrahimHalake:Latif can youelaborate about9-1, 9-2 of NRT,why were they
usedinKom indefence of Samburu/Rendille herdersandsame wasrecentlynotusedinMerti.We
do notneedto getmore conservanciesinordertoget more vehiclesandbe safe fromcattle rustlers,
that argumentof havingmore vehiclesdoesnotmake sense unlessyou are indirectlyconvincingus
to accept more NRT conservancies.We know theyare biasedasfaras Borans are concernedeven
before these recentincidents.Letusbe frankand honestwitheachotheras a community.Bythe
waywhy shouldthese mushroomingconservanciesbe allowed?Are theyreallynecessaryina
pastarolist'slife.?Orwhatisbehindthem???
30/05/2017, 20:26 - BPA Yussuf Tuse Jilo:Simplyareconolizarion (landgrabbing)
30/05/2017, 20:57 - +254 722 649135: Brothersand sisters.Salaamaleykum.Iwouldlike tothank
Latif for hisinitiative.We all shouldappreciate this.Ashe suggestedletusorganize ourselvesand
planfor the meetingthe soonestpossible.Ipersonallywouldbe willingtoattendwiththe aimof
findingthe truthof thismatterand finda middle groundwhere NRT wouldbe anorganisationthat
serves the communities of this region equitably and with justice. Just propose date and venue and no.
of participants.
30/05/2017, 21:25 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Iagree withyou.I am invitingall of usto tell all thistoNRT and
make judgementtoeitherchange itsmode of operationorabandonitaltogether. Rememberthisis
biggerthananyone of us
30/05/2017, 21:35 - Latif NRT Isiolo:There are 177 conservanciesspreadoutacrossKenya. Only30
are membersof NRT. The restare eithercountyorotherorganizationssupported.

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What will happenif we decidedthatwe don'twantthe 1 conservancythat we have?Ourneighbours
will still continue withtheirconservanciesandtheircountygovernmentisputtinginmoneylotsof it.
80 millionlastyeartobe precise. Howdoesthischange our situationforthe better? The County
Government and other local NGOs need to come on board and try to understand this concept further.
30/05/2017, 21:36 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Letsplanforthe meetingwithPBA firstthenwe canchat a way
forward
30/05/2017, 21:39 - Latif NRT Isiolo:Thankyouguysplease rememberamnottryingto protectNRT
but I am tryingto directourfrustrationsasa communitytothe rightpeople.
BPA Saku Chart
30/05/2017, 15:16 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Aaguys.Asyouare aware I work forNRT. The
organizationthathasbeenunderalotof criticismfrom a sectionof the borana populace.Iresonate
withsome of the sentimentsbutothersare unfounded.Iamproposinga meetingbetweenNRTand
the leadershipof the Boranaincludingthe professionalsfromthisgroup.Isuggestthatwe have 5
membersof thisgroupbe part of thisteamthat will include elders,political leadersandopinion
leaders.
I hope thismeetingshall helpourpeople make aninformeddecisiononengagementwithNRT.There
are a numberof boranas workingforNRTand none of usis happywitheventsinthe recentpast
especiallywhenNRT isseentobe biased.
Is thisplausible?
ShouldIplanfor this?
What do youguys think?
30/05/2017, 15:17 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Ok,asa staff,have youseenNRT double standard
againstBoran inregard to cattle rustling?
Ok,as a staff,have youseenNRTdouble standardagainst Boranin regardto cattle rustling?
30/05/2017, 15:18 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Reply
30/05/2017, 15:18 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:NRTsecurityteamisonlydeployedunderdirectrequest
fromthe OCPD.The NRT teamhas membersfromSamburu,Boranaand Turkana communities.
Theresnoway theycan be misusedandthiswasdone deliberately.
The problemfrommyownunderstandingisnotNRTbut the fact that there exists1borana
conservancyandabout 7 samburuconservanciesinthe region.Thisdifference especiallyin
respondingtorustlingincidenceswillbe massive.Imagine7vehiclescomparedto1?

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The CountyGovernmentof Samburuhasestablished5more andbought5 vehiclesfurther.
Thisis the realitythatwe operate in.
30/05/2017, 15:20 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:AbdilatifAbdi Boru isaseniorstaff withNRT.He isready
to arrange for meetingwithNRTwithBoranproffessionals. Todiscusssoutstandingissues
But fromthe lookof thingsandhisreply,the Countygovernmenthave usedthe avenuestomake
communityconservanciesacommunitymilitia:Sambucountyinspecific.NRTlegitimise itand
Countytake over
30/05/2017, 15:44 - DCC Jaldesa: @ tutana.as a staff you can't critique your organisation objectively.
provide the venue andthe date andleave the restto members.
30/05/2017, 16:02 - BPA Waqo Gufu:My take isif the so calledNRT,iskeentoaddressthe obvious
anormaliesmanifested,thenthereare goodopportunitiesforthat.Firstly,the discussionneedstobe
approachedwithfactsand objectivity,consideringthe manydynamicsthatisalreadyatplay.We
mustput our facts togetherasa communitybefore hand.Fromthe turnof eventsthe Tutanasetal
couldjustbe some windowdressingtoobscure andblindthe communityandotherstakeholders.
Basicallygivingdifferentface of the orgin the eyesof the people,govtanddonnors.Definitelythere
are differentfacestothis.Howeveramore comprehensive discussionwiththe areaopinionleaders
and political leadersneedstohappen.Giventhe intricaciesthatunderlie the NRToperations.Inthis
forumthere individualswhohave heavilyinvestigatedthe NRTissue andcanbe of greathelp. But
thenwe needtoalso see howfarwe can widenthe discussion,itwillbe importanttoinclude the
SakufolksgiventhatNRT has slowlyexpandedtoSaku
30/05/2017, 16:10 - BPA Yussuf Tuse Jilo:Bw DC Tutana is nota staff of NRT he volunteerstoshare
withus whatwas postedbyAbdilatifonBPA Isiolopage
30/05/2017, 16:15 - DCC Jaldesa:A memberhere hassuggestedthathe hostsusat hisnanyuki
residence todiscusspertinentissuesconcerningourcommunityatleastone weekafter
Ramadan.maybe northernrangelandscouldbe one of the issue we mayneedtoknow ie it's
operationandcommunity engagement.if steerco agreesIcan disclose the host.
30/05/2017, 16:18 - BPA Tache ElemaSND:Sotha to addto your suggestionsMoyale subcountyhas
losta substantive parcel of land underthe guise of conservancy. Myquestionis,isNRTequally
responsible forall the communitymilitiascoumflagedas"conservancies"especiallyaffectingall the
neighborhoodsof ourGabra brothersfromDasenachin NorthHorr,to Moyale Subcounty (read
Elledimtu)andtoShuurwhichwas recentlyaccussedof havingahand inthe infamous Dololowama
killingsinSakuconstituency.
30/05/2017, 16:24 - BPA Ismail Guyo:Elle Dimtuconservancywasat one time contestedbyour
people butit'snotclear the circumstance underwhichthe localsdesertedthe areasinfavorfor
Gabbra???
30/05/2017, 16:27 - BPA Waqo Gufu:SodhaTache, I totallyagree withyou,NRTcouldbe a big
scheme inthe making.Unfortunatelyworksincohortswithothercommunityandlikelyresponsible
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30/05/2017, 16:51 - EngineerBule Golicha:Gentlemen,Iattimeswonderwhetherwe leave in
differentworldsfromthe real oneswe see people live in.WhatSodhaSaladsharediscandidfeeling
fromone of us workingforNRT.I have previouslyworkedforaninternational organizationworking
withinourlocal districts,butirespective of the performance of those NGOsourcommunityattitude
towardsthemwas nevergood.Theywere judgedanddismisedasservingpartisaninterestfromthe
onset.Treatmentgiventothe countygovernment,albeitheadedbypeople'swithcompeting
intereststoourshas notbeendifferent.The onlylocal NGOthe evenappearedtoserve ourinterest
was notsparedevenwhile it'sleadershipwasourpeople(cifa).
We agreedas a communitytoignore itsexistenceanddistancesthemfrom ourliveswithouteven
makingdemandsforourfair share.If we agreedwithit,it hadclan ownersas benefactors.
Letsalso note that some politicsare local whileothersare international.If we are notplayinglocal
politicswell enoughtodeduce local advantages,we canneversucceedbeatinginternationalplayers.
As we have beentold,NRTreliesoninternationaldonationtopropuplocal conservativesand
protectwildlife's.Withabrotherekingalivingworkingforsucha conservancy,inhome locality,his
biggestdetractorsare fellowboranswhohuntdownelephantsleadingtodeathsof several treasured
oneswithinBoranzones.Theyare usuallytornbetweentendingtocommunityneeds - health,water,
environment,rangelandmanagementandimportantof all security.There isalotof liaisonbetween
variousconservanviesincase of rustling.Withintheirlimitedresources,theyprovidechase inmany
events,leadingsuccesful recoveriesinthe last2/3 yrs inSaku forinstance andtheydo advise cattle
ownersonrangelandssuitable forgrazingwithintheirzones.
FightingNRTheadon maynot be strategicin myview.We mustapproach themlike othersdid,and
supportconversanciestofocusonour local needswhile we letthemfulfil theirmandate.Failure of
that is just continued display of our characteristic nature of fighting and distancing everything foreign.
Thissimplyexplainswhywe have fewornointernationalNGOsoperatinginSololo,Moyale andSaku
regions.Let'sspare a thoughtand have strategicleadershipapproachestounderstandand
accomodate thiscreationsanduse themto our advantages.Castigatingthemwill notsolve our
problems.
30/05/2017, 17:51 - BPA Tache ElemaSND:Sotha i know your youngerbrotherworksinone of them
and he musthave beentorn betweencommunityinterestandhisproffessional jobsince itsinthe
heartof hishomelandandi thinkit'sonlyone withinMarsabitCountyservingourlocals
30/05/2017, 17:57 - DCC Jaldesa:LastMarch whenboransattackedthe samburuall hell broke from
the skiesusingchoppersandonthe groundusingfourwheel cruisers.wasthe same effortmade by
northernrangelandstrustwhenboranswere offendedthistime round?
30/05/2017, 18:03 - BPA Tache ElemaSND:That is the questionthatbegsthe answersamongst
manybro Dcc
30/05/2017, 19:40 - +254 719 716164: Hon Membersthisisan everendingpuzzlewithusalways.A
seniormemberof thisnoble page hasbeingemployedasCEOof NRT and soonhe will take lead.All
the current leadersof NRTincludingthe bloodyIanCraigwill be reportingtothe CEO.Hopefullyour
puzzle will be solved.

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30/05/2017, 19:42 - +254 724 498796: Is NRT a legal securityapparatusorthe gov't cededitssecurity
functiontoforeignoperative? Theyarm5 conservativesforSamburuand 1 for Boran. Gosh!
30/05/2017, 20:08 - DiidHalake Nakuru:WhoisA Mr Lalampa inNRT structure ?
30/05/2017, 20:15 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:7conservanciesplus5new total 12 vs 1 forBoran
30/05/2017, 20:17 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Butthatdoesntmeanthat we mustaccept the fucking
NRT conservancies.
30/05/2017, 20:23 - EngineerBule Golicha:Guys,let'snotfightanythingthatwe donotseemto
understand.Asa communitywe mustlookatpros and consof these organizations before castigating
them.Athigherlevelstheydolistenandhave noble objectives.If the professionalsare throwing
tantrumsjustbecause a fellowprofessionalfromneighbouringcommunityisadriver inan NGO,one
will notbe surprisedbythe abrasive reactionsof the unschooledlocals.Let'sleadthe wayinmind
change so that these communitycangetaccomodatedsomehow.
30/05/2017, 20:29 - Denge Fayo:Please thisare notconservancies!Itmayhave beeninLaikipiaarea
but it'salsobackfiringaswe witnessedoverjustdroughtperiod!
But inpastoral areas itis 'concentrationcamp'it isanextensionof illegal mercenarycamptrainingfor
mercenarieswhoguardthe illegal richgold,diamondandothervaluable resourcesminesinDRC
Congoand those whojoinmilitaoutfittotopple unstable regimeslike ZimbabweandBurundi! They
come underdisguise of tourist,trainandare deployedforvariousassignmentsacrossthe globe! NRT
was engaged in Waso and MC county by respective regimes who are determined to subjugate Borana!
We are onlytalk!Why cant we take upthe challenge ourbrothersharedabove andexpressour
misgivingsoverthese conservancies!!
30/05/2017, 21:45 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:There are 177 conservanciesspreadoutacrossKenya.
Only30 are membersof NRT. The restare eithercountyorotherorganizationssupported. Whatwill
happenif we decidedthatwe don'twantthe 1 conservancythat we have?Ourneighbourswill still
continue withtheirconservanciesandtheircountygovernmentisputtinginmoneylotsof it.80
millionlastyeartobe precise. Howdoesthischange our situationforthe better? The County
Government and other local NGOs need to come on board and try to understand this concept further.
30/05/2017, 21:45 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Letsplanforthe meetingwithPBA firstthenwe canchat
a way forward
30/05/2017, 21:45 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Thankyouguysplease rememberamnottryingto
protectNRT but I am tryingto directour frustrationsasa communitytothe right people.
30/05/2017, 21:45 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo: 👆frmAbdilatif AbdiBoru.NRTstaff
30/05/2017, 21:48 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:PostedfrmBPA Isiolochapter
30/05/2017, 22:27 - SaladT'una NGO Isiolo:Ourcurrentpositiondoesntmatterbutwhatmattersis
the directionwe take

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