Now you're about to get it. It really depend. If they genuinely bought it - then there is legal process. For majority poor peasant - they deserve to be given alternative settlement - for their lives are more important than trees. Biotic dump and such - are theories. Their human life and properties are sacrosant.
Get what? We all sympathize with the average joes whatever the tribe. Alternative settlement are their ancestral villages, warudi huku. Compensate them with money to buy maize and foodstuffs but you are daydreaming if you think taxpayers are going to compensate hundreds of thousands of kipsigis peasants will be made into millionaires as you wish for breaking the law. Don't be silly, you can't pick a fight with scientific theories, accept and move on.
As long as we have poverty - slums in forest or urban areas will be a reality - people will invade wetlands, forest reserves, parks, name it - if they are left unprotected.
So understand - fence all forest or wetlands or parks or road reserves - long before humans being settle down there.
Waiting for 30yrs when people have long settled down - and moving in to evict them is crimes against humanity kind of thing. Just like you cannot move into Nairobi slums - and evict poor people there without due process- even if they don't own the land.
Penda ama msipende, Mau mtaihama.
If you think there will be no consequence - don't come crying ICC in few years. First eviction in Kenya was carried out around mau forest- and it caused mau mau as landless kikuyus dumped on roadside had nothing to lose. Kibaki eviction caused PEV. Uhuru eviction will soon boomerang - you cannot destory 100K livehoods - and hope everything will be all right. The thuggery going on in my place is soon going to become like central - kind of violent robberies happening is unheard of.
And don't cheer - because the next war will not spare your people - don't think it will usual kikuyus-kalenjin - it could well be many Luos or Luhyas getting evicted from places like Eldoret and Kericho - by Mau evictees - so they can their hustles in urban poverty - now that forest is no go zone.
We will see to that. Keep threatening PEV every time, one trick pony. Sore loser.