Kenya’s government scrapped plans to impose multiple tax hikes after a controversial bill sparked protests in the country and led to hundreds of arrests.
Mostly young protestors assembled over concerns that the East African country’s cost-of-living crisis would worsen under the levies laid out in the Finance Bill 2024, including taxes on bread purchases and car ownership. Users shared a video claiming it showed President William Ruto’s private jet set on fire by protestors. But the claim is false: the plane in the footage is a permanent fixture in a public park in Nairobi, not the presidential jet.
“Angry Kenyan youth have burnt down a presidential private jet being used by their president. This is the shape of things unfolding in Africa,” readsshowing a blue and white plane burning on the ground as a man narrates. “Private jet on fire. Kenyan youth just set their president’s private jet on fire,” he says.
The video also includes other footage allegedly from the Kenyan protests, including the home of a member of parliament burning and individuals looting a market belonging to another MP, both of whom voted in favour of the controversial tax bill. But the burning plane in the footage is a fixed feature in a Nairobi park, not the president’s private jet.
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