Coast political party: Why it will not be a walk in the park.

A section of coastal leaders during a past event [File, Standard]

For decades, plans to form a Coast political party has caused jitters across the country, perhaps because of the region’s clamour for majimbo or federalism.

Calls for majimbo were blamed for the 1997, 2005 and 2012 attacks on non-locals by criminal gangs that killed, maimed and displaced scores in parts of Kwale and Mombasa counties.