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Why should Mombasa be forced to pay the biggest price for SGR?

Police clash with transporters during last week’s protest against the government's decision to transport all imported containers through the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Nairobi's Inland Container Deport. [Gideon Maundu, Standard]

It did not take too long for the UhuRuto regime to revert to its default position of using force and violence in dealing with dissent.

After three consecutive Mondays of peaceful demonstrations in Mombasa by frustrated, angry and hungry citizens over the illegal order to essentially move the port from Mombasa to Nairobi, the regime brought out the police force to disperse a legal protest and violently arrested some protestors.

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