What is government not telling us about the SGR?

A Standard Gauge Railway train with containerised cargo leaves the Mombasa port for Nairobi in March this year. Experts have dismissed the viability of the controversial line. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]

Residents and businessmen in Mombasa have for the past four weeks held demonstrations to protest a government directive that made it compulsory to transport all import cargo via the SGR.

Every Monday, the protestors would take the streets to decry the order, a move that they say will bring the economy at the coastal town to its knees. Last Monday was no different but only more dramatic.