The coastal region will not move on, it will get out of this bad union

President Uhuru Kenyatta addressing Jubilee Leaders from Coast Region meeting at the Serani grounds, Mbaraki, Mombasa County, October, 2017

Secession talk has been rife lately, with the Coast and Nyanza regions making the most demands. To understand what powers this new drive at the Coast, it is important to go back to history.

On October 8, 1963, present-day Kenya was born following the unification of two nations namely; the Kenya Colony (which is the present-day upcountry Kenya) and the Kenya Protectorate (the present-day Coast region comprising six counties).