This dispute over land limits is 30 years in the making, when military forces displaced the Indigenous communities of the Yukpa by force and established landowners who have cattle ranches and have been working the lands ever since. 
Mgogoro huu kuhusu mipaka ya ardhi umekuwapo kwa takribani miaka 30, yaani tangu pale vikosi vya jeshi vilipowandoa kwa nguvu wanajamii wenyeji ya Ki-Yukpa na kuwapa ardhi hiyo wamiliki wapya walioanzisha mashamba makubwa ya mifugo, hasa ng'ombe, ambao wameendelea kuitumia ardhi hiyo tangu wakati huo.