Lamu on course in spite of hurdles

Security officers patrol the Lamu Island seafront after a two-day strike by locals protesting against the extension of a curfew in October last year. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

After successful lobbying and protests that shut down Lamu town, the national government lifted the dawn-to-dusk curfew that had crippled Lamu County's fishing and tourism sectors, which had been dealt another major blow with the eruption of bloody massacres in Mpeketoni area on the mainland.

Governor Issa Timamy was briefly held for this massacre but was acquitted by a court of law for lack of evidence.