Narok Senator Ledama Ole Kina on Sunday took on President William Ruto over the expansive 75,000 acres of Kedong Ranch that the Head of State promised to subdivide and give back to the Maasai Community.
According to Ledama, the Head of State is being insincere because only 70,000 acres are available for subdivision from the ranch after 4,000 acres were bought for the Kitet community and 1,000 acres set aside by the Jubilee Administration to construct a dry port, leaving 70,000 acres.
According to the Senator, President William Ruto had promised to carve out 10,000 acres from the ranch and give it to the Maasai Community when the President visited Narok County on September 30.
"When you tell the Maasai that you told Kedong to give Maasai 10,000 acres of land without proof, aren’t you just selling air to the community," the Narok Senator said in a statement.
Matters Kedong Ranch are a thorny issue among the Maasai Community.
Political leaders from the region have previously accused powerful politicians from previous administrations of attempting to grab it.
Notably, Kedong Ranch was among properties invaded by goons alongside the Kenyatta Northlands farm when the country was experiencing political instability earlier in the year.
At the height of campaigns during the buildup to the 2022 elections, President William Ruto promised the Maa Community that he would revert the Kedong Ranch back to them.
"The issue that is remaining is the Rose Farm and Kedong Ranch. We need to finish it the way we solved the Mau land issue so that the locals can be given the land's ownership and the Government will pay,"
Similarly, when President William Ruto visited Kajiado County on August 22 to open the Maa Cultural Week, he announced government plans to hand over partial management of the Amboseli National Park to the Kajiado County government.
"You have demonstrated beyond the doubt that you have the capacity to manage the resource," Ruto said.
