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NAIROBI, Kenya, July 30 (UPI) -- Forest dwellers in Kenya hope lawmakers protect their land rights in a constitutional referendum set for an August vote.
Kenya is scheduled to hold a referendum for its draft constitution Wednesday. The draft was released to the public in November.
Daniel Sambrumo, an advocate representing more than 2,500 people evicted from forests in western Kenya, told the U.N. humanitarian news agency IRIN he hoped the new draft would include land rights.
"For us who have lived on government trust land all our lives, the same way our fathers and grandfathers did, some of us hope the draft will help us claim what is rightfully ours," he said.
Sambrumo's clan has been locked in a land struggle with his neighbors in the Mt. Elgon district, IRIN said. He says the land issue is complicated by the fact that many, including those in the Mt. Elgon district, do not have deeds to their land.
Supporters of land reform in Kenya complain they are denied certain rights because they are considered evictees and not internally displaced persons.
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