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While our attention is fixed on demonstrations, a secession narrative that could potentially complicate national healing and reconciliation is back in the air. About two decades ago, the government and people in the Coast battled a secession narrative that was gaining ground under the rallying slogan of 'Mombasa sio Kenya'.
This line of political agitation subsided until after the disputed presidential election outcome last year when Narok Senator Ledema ole Kina furiously asked Kenyans to consider secession if what he sees as a culture of election stealing cannot be stopped.
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