The protestors' calls for the financial bill to be thrown out - not amended as it has been - were dismissed by an open ballot in a National Assembly where the government has the majority. Disruption in the country is now a reckoning.
As protesters faced off against heavy-handed police in Kenya's capital, members of parliament passed the tax bill that pushed them into the streets. The financial bill will impose new levies on essential goods and push the burden of external debt repayment on the country's increasingly unemployed and struggling citizens. When the marchers made it into the parliament chambers they had vowed to occupy, their rage and betrayal was on full show.
The sanctimony of western embassies decrying violence while their home states empower and enrich the Kenyan security apparatus with defence partnerships. The final hope rested on President William Ruto quelling the tension and calling for restraint. Instead, he doubled down - deploying the country's military to support the police and condemning the day's events as treasonous.
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