Fears that hundreds of youthful passengers from a festival in Diani, Kwale County, could turn chaotic led to the cancellation of the Sunday 10pm Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) train. Security sources confided in The Standard that the decision to cancel the Madaraka Express train service was arrived at by the National Security Council late on Sunday.
The sources said security agents established that the Summer Tide festival held at Diani attracted hundreds of the youths who planned to arrive in Nairobi on Monday morning.
The Summer Tide, organised by the son of a prominent government official working at State House, attracted hundreds of youths from across the country.
At the festival, chants of 'one term' and 'Ruto must go' rent the air, sparking fears in security circles that the youth could join the Saba Saba anniversary demos on arrival in Nairobi on Monday morning.
