RESTORING THE TREASURE.

 For years Mombasa has been known as "the city of merchants". The port of Mombasa is the gateway to East and Central Africa, and is one of the busiest ports along the East Africa coastline.  The port provides direct connectivity to over 80 ports worldwide and is linked to a vast hinterland comprising Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern democratic Republic of Congo,  Northern Tanzania , Southern Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia by road.

On June 6th 2018 the kenya port authority was diverted to Nairobi. This nearly killed the economy of Mombasa,  because it was the main source of economy for the island. It led to many people losing their jobs . This made Mombasa face a huge economy lose. 

On September 13th after president Ruto was sworn in as the 5th president of the Republic of Kenya,  he issued instructions for the return of KPA back to Mombasa as he promised in his campaigns . All clearance of goods and other operational issues were to be reverted back to Mombasa. Ruto said that the move would restore thousands of jobs to the people of coast.  

There have been fears that the reversion of port services to Mombasa will kill the multi billion shilling standard gauge railway freight service business.  In December 2015 , the jubilee government under former president Uhuru Kenyatta acquired sh158 billion loan for the Nairobi-Naivasha SGR line .

However the KPA services will bring back the lost economy of Mombasa and restore it back to its Golden age.