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State should not gag MRC for demanding economic rights

By Billow Kerrow

Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) may sound like a guerrilla group by name and could have scared the authorities into proscribing it, but by declaring it an illegal group, the Government has unwittingly driven the group underground and made it into a militant outfit that it is now accusing of violence.

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