Opposition chief Raila Odinga, Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho (L) and Kisauni MP Rashid Bedzimba (R) during a past rally in Mombasa. Photo/ kbctv.co.ke
Opposition leader Raila Odinga on Sunday condemned the government's silence over what he termed as recurrent extrajudicial killings in the Coast region.He told the government to come out clean on the same."We have had cases of people being shot here in Mombasa," he said while addressing opposition supporters at Mombasa's Tononoka grounds. “This must stop."By July 2014, more than 21 people- mostly Muslim clerics- had been gunned down in the southeastern port of Mombasa according to human rights group Haki Africa.All those gunned down, apart from one, were linked by the government to terrorism and support for Islamist group Al-Shabaab.The government has, however, strenuously denied allegations that security forces were involved in the killings.Human rights groups have consistently called on the government to thoroughly investigate the killings.The late Sheikhs Aboud Rogo and Sharif Abubakar alias Makaburi are among the last prominent Muslim clerics to be killed in Mombasa.The government linked them to the heinous Garissa University terror attack where over 60 students were killed.