Police in Mombasa cancel ODM rally over Uhuru Tononoka event

Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir (centre) with Mvita ODM leaders brief journalists at Mvita Grounds in Mombasa County after they announced the cancellation of a planned ODM rally. Nassir dismissed police whom he accused of giving flimsy reasons and denying ODM security for their meeting. [PHOTO: GIDEON MAUNDU/STANDARD].

The State cancelled a rally planned by the Orange Democratic Movement at Mvita Grounds in Mombasa, about two kilometres from Tononoka Grounds where President Uhuru Kenyatta led a Jubilee Party rally Sunday.

ODM had planned a concurrent rally and sought approval of Makupa police but were told they could not proceed with the function.