State must take responsibility for insecurity at the Coast

It’s Saturday morning. I had passed by the Mbaraki Sports Club in Mombasa for a reconciliation conference convened by Cabinet Minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere. It’s part of the reconciliation process agreed upon by Mwakwere, the Muslim for Human Rights (Muhuri), and the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) that such conference be held.

Eminent Muslim scholars including Sheikh Ahmed Musallam, and Abu Hamza who informally shared the Islamic edict on sulhu (reconciliation) referred to in the Quran about ten times. I am firmly behind this process. I am convinced that it better serves the local interests of the communities at the Coast.