The Sengwer are a minority and marginalized hunter-gatherer indigenous community who occupy
present-day West Pokot, Trans-Nzoia, and Elgeyo Marakwet Counties. Over the years, the Kenyan
government, through the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and other security agencies has made
attempts to evict the indigenous group from their land in Embobut forest under the guise of forest
conservation. These forceful evictions intensified in Embobut forest in December 2017. The Sengwer
homes were torched, crops and household items destroyed and their livestock disappeared. The
Sengwer community, particularly women, cried for help that hardly came.

These forceful evictions are human rights violations of the Sengwer as well as an infringement of
their rights to customary sustainable utilization of forest resources. In addition, the evictions deprive
the community the means of subsistence, integral to their identity, cultural survival, and forest life. It
is important to note that Article 63 of Kenya Constitution 2010 prescribes that an indigenous group
cannot be evicted from their ancestral territory without their Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).

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