On Thursday,The nationwide protests against government tax increases, spearheaded mostly by young people, are said to have claimed the lives of over 20 people.
On Thursday, as armored military vehicles drove through the streets of Nairobi, the nation’s capital, police deployed tear gas to disperse protestors who had threatened to storm the presidential palace.
A judge decided that the military must protect government sites, but he granted the authorities two days to provide an explanation of the deployment’s length and rules of engagement.
Judge Lawrence Mugambi declared, “It is a dangerous trend that can bring about militarization of the country to deploy the military in a blanket manner without defining their scope of operation and the duration of their operation.”
The Kenya Law Society stated that it “respects but disagrees” with the decision, despite having petitioned the court to force the troops back to the barracks.
A day after irate protestors briefly stormed parliament and set it on fire, President William Ruto gave in to pressure on Wednesday and announced he would remove the financial law containing the unpopular tax measures.
The government’s spokesperson, Isaac Mwaura, stated on the New Show that the bill’s withdrawal was a “major blow to the administration as it left a “large void.”
