Fresh twist in anti-SGR demos as outfit emerges

Human rights activists are led to a police car after they were arrested jointly with other members of the civil societies, Clearing and forwarding agents, transporters and Container Freight Station workers during a protest against the government's decision to have all containers ferried to Nairobi's Inland Container Deport after being off-loaded from the ships through the Standard Gauge Railway.

Cracks have emerged among traders and activists organising weekly street demonstrations in Mombasa against the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) freight service’s monopoly on transfer of inland import cargo from Mombasa Port. 

A section of transporters has disowned the protests spearheaded by rights groups Haki Africa, Muslims for Human Rights and Mvita MP Abdulswamad Nassir, 48 hours after Tourism CS Najib Balala also opposed the protests.