The Mau environmental catastrophe has become the nerve center of Kenya’s politics that is now shaping the evolving dynamics of August 2010 Constitutional Referendum and the politics of the Kibaki Succession, ahead of 2012 elections. But systematic encroachments on the Mau complex by the colonial and successor states has resulted in the destabilization of the eco-system, drying of rivers, intermittent droughts, food insecurity and increasing poverty in one of Africa’s largest water towers. Evidently, de-politicizing the restoration of the Mau complex and other water towers in the country......
