fight by Ilkarekeshe group trust and Oloololo game ranch limited company over land

Illegal evictions and crimes committed in the struggle for land must be taken seriously by the government according to the trusted society of human rights alliance. The alliance highlighted the dispute over land found along the Maasai National Park between the Ilkarekeshe group trust and Oloololo game ranch limited company. According to the human rights alliance, on 23rd Sept 2003, the Ilkarekeshe group trust was evicted illegally; without a court order by the directors of the game ranch company. They further claimed that Jackson Kipas was shot in the land fight, when the police officers sided with Samuel Tonai, former director of National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) who was also a director of the game ranch company. The human rights organization wants the government to charge the police officers involved in the killing of Mr Kipas and the destruction of property worth millions. The land titled Oloololo adjudication section was registered to the trust group on behalf of the Siria Maasai community in 1975. The land was to be divide in 1992, but the operation failed when the Ministry of Land cancelled the sub dividing process and the land remained a trust land. After years of fighting with the Oloololo game ranch Limited company, the Ilkarekeshe group was issued with a title deed on 15th December 2011 by Sam Ongeri, Minister of land and settlement. The human rights alliance is concerned with the delay on the hearing of the murder case at the court and the conviction of the police officers who committed the crime. They said the case was transferred from the Kilgoris law court to the Kisii high court, and the inquest report on cause of death of Mr Kipas has never been revealed to the family. The alliance insisted that the land belongs to the community through the Ilkarekeshe group trust, and transactions with others are illegal and unauthorized. They vowed to move to the high court, to petition the court over the ownership of the Maasai Mara Oloololo adjudication section.