[Mombasa governor Ali Joho addresses a rally at past. Photo/Courtesy]
After the police disrupted his rally in Kinango, Kwale county, Mombasa governor Ali Hassan Joho has welcomed ODM party and Opposition supporters to an alternative rally.
He said the rally will be used to declare the stand of the people of the former Coast Province, saying residents must have a political stand.
During the incident, participants were forced to flee, as teargas canisters were lobbed at them, also preventing Joho's helicopter from landing, to address the rally.
''For the people of the former coast province of Kenya. I wish to invite you all to the "Pwani Declaration" to be held at the historic Tononoka grounds on Sunday 26th March where we shall peaceably declare our future and reinforce our political stand,'' he said.
He reminded the Jubilee administration that freedom once won cannot be reversed.
''That repression is a tool of the unenlightened. That history is littered with far worse examples of repression that have all fallen. I also wish to reiterate to our friends, that I shall not cease to tell Kenyans the truth.''
''That the truth shall always remain the truth. It is the truth that Jubilee has engaged in a policy of deliberate economic sabotage against the people and economics of the coast,'' Joho said, citing his criticism against the Jubilee government.
He criticised the movement of Port related services to Naivasha, saying it would destroy Mombasa.
''The reduction on community share of mineral proceeds will adversely affect Kwale and Taita Taveta counties. The acquisition of a million acres for a failed irrigation scheme was a con on the people of Kilifi and Tana River.''
Speaking Thursday, the ODM deputy party leader noted: "The erosion of the powers of the National Land Commission (NLC) means our all our people from Lamu to Lunga Lunga will never get justice under Jubilee.''