Nyali MP Mohammed Ali has sent a stern message to President Uhuru Kenyatta regarding a controversial government directive to importers that required them to move all containers headed to Nairobi by the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).
Speaking during a protest held on Monday, September 30, the MP stated that Mombasa residents would not allow their products to be taken to Naivasha.
"I want CS Devolution and CS Transport to know that Mombasa residents are valued as well and we will not allow that their product is taken to Naivasha so that Mombasa residents can die of hunger.
"We will fight and protect the future of Mombasa and Coast region at-large. Its all about People's Power!" he stated.
He further stated that the president needed to affirm where his loyalty lay regarding the monopoly of the SGR.
"Mr. President, it is either you are with us or not. Sisi hatutabembelezana. Sisi hatutakubali maziwa ya watoto wetu ipelekwe Naivasha. (We will not allow our children's milk (sic) to be taken to Naivasha" he stated.
Further, the vocal MP called out on Mombasa leaders whom, he claimed, were secretly working with the national government to enforce SGR's monopoly.
“Some people with us here are hypocrites who have been sitting with people keen to kill Mombasa’s economy,” he stated.
A group by the name Fat Action Business Community Movement organized the protest, citing that jobs and business opportunities had been affected since the SGR policy was issued.
“Upon the verification exercise of cargo, the importers must be allowed to choose the mode of transport they prefer to transport their cargo," Salim Karama, the group's chairman stated in a petition to the president.
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