Kenya’s Coast MPs differ over formation of political party

President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) in consultation with Kilifi North MP Gideon Mung'aro (right) at State House in Mombasa. The President was meeting Coast Parliamentary Leaders. PHOTO: MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD

MOMBASA: Coast MPs who attended a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House Mombasa on Friday have clashed over a memorandum read by Kilifi North MP Gideon Mung’aro calling for a Coast based political party.

Mr Mung’aro caught many members of the National Assembly and about 1,000 grassroots leaders by surprise when he read a document alleging local legislators had agreed to form a party for the Coast, which they would use to contest the next polls and bargain with other political parties.