The secessionist group, Mombasa Republican Council has come on the spot once again after police officers raided their hideout and training camps, to confiscate an assortment of crude weapons.
Kaloleni OCPD Kennedy Osando has expressed concern at the resurgence of the proscribed group that advocates for the secession of the coastal region from Kenya to become an independent state.
The group’s leaders argue that secession would liberate the region from marginalization by successive Kenyan governments.
Their slogan is ‘Pwani si Kenya’.
OCPD Osando told the Nation they were acting on intelligence received on May 9 about 60 youths who had converged at the forest.
Some of the weapons recovered from the camp included bows, arrows, clubs and pangas.