Kenya: Protests Erupt Again After Ruto's U-turn on Tax Hike; Police Fire Tear Gas | Firstpost Africa

[@SP1-media]

Ruto called us citizens criminals when our comrades were killed by police in parliament. We shall not relent!

[@Noahac2]

You should know when to stop. You've won. He won't sign it. Stop the protest

[@Ericjunior7656]

​@@Noahac2we want more from him beyond Finance Bill... he oversees corruption as his allies spit on us..

[@bandaid3398]

@@Noahac2it’s bigger than that

[@Chrissimpson-oo4qx]

Will maybe if your people so-called protests and what is seen on TV didn't act like crazy people on drugs and hoodlums and by videos I've seen going around attacking the police you wouldn't get shot at if you continue to play stupid games absolutely the police has a responsibility to put stupid people down when they threatened the stability of the country. I have yet to see on any TV broadcasting actual protest all I see is people yelling and screaming nonsense acting like their own drugs wanting to call for the overflow of a government that doesn't understand if you talk on the government it thinks will only get much worse or it happened in Egypt it happened in Lebanon it has happened everywhere. Never has toppling a government ever produced things getting better in the country it always cost a total economic collapse.

[@majestympofu5851]

@@bandaid3398true

[@choukriadan4706]

Kenya has got one of the wisest and educated people ❤

[@malongosalim6826]

Thnks ❤

[@irenemumbi6560]

Thank you

[@AshaAbdallah-wi7og]

❤

[@HellenofTroy897]

Kenyans want Ruto gone. He's destroyed our beautiful country once poised for takeoff. Why does he have 900 Billion in his local bank account when the country is grappling with a huge sovereign debt? We want a forensic debt audit. We want lifestyle audits on his cabinet and members of parliament. KENYA MUST CHANGE. RUTO MUST GO.

[@SarcasticSplendor]

WE WANT A *BETTER KENYA* AND IT IS NOW VERY CLEAR THAT *RUTO WON'T LEAD US* TO THAT END AT ALL. *HE MUST GO NOW* .

[@WalidDhidha]

😅😅😅😅​@cassyrex2023

[@jessicah-22]

​@@SarcasticSplendorhe must resign immediately

[@CAROLINEOTIENO]

THIS MAN HAS GRABBED TRILLIONS FROM KENYANS NOT JUST BILLIONS. HE GRABS FROM SAFARICOM.

[@esthergithui2502]

He is a good thief. Even if he gets all the money to himself what is going to do?

[@gingerfox7143]

He wants to export kenyans. Ruto must go!!

[@Wezzie0]

He has already exported them to Haiti and Arab countries to be returned on body bags

[@Hardin9]

@@Wezzie0 To be returned in body bags from both locations? I see your point about Haiti, that country is a dangerous place to be right now especially for any cops or military troops trying to fulfill a peace keeping role, that is country that the UN has officially declared a collapsed state. But what about Arabic Countries, why do you have that opinion of those countries?

[@Wezzie0]

@@Hardin9 Alot of people go looking for opportunities in Arab and or Gulf states because of the economic situation and lack of opportunities at home. These are mostly low skilled labor jobs. Majority of these people wind up in pure slavery conditions, their passports are confiscated, women are raped and pimped out, they endure alot of torture, some are not even paid for their work and can't escape. This is not headline news but alot don't make it. With oil coming from Saudi Arabia, the Kenyan government just turns the other side awaiting for the body bags to arrive at JKIA. If the politicians would fix country, these people would never leave home to go working in slave conditions. People are relying on remittances from family members abroad instead of the government fixing its own house.

[@Hardin9]

@@Wezzie0 Do you have any citation for what you're claiming? Granted this is of course anecdotal, so with that disclaimer out of the way. I know someone from Kenya 🇰🇪 who is currently living in Dubai🇦🇪, she signed a contract with an employment agency, she is working as a manager at a restaurant, and living in a studio apartment, she travels to and from work every day by train, she is not experiencing anything remotely like what you're talking about in Dubai. Prior to her living in Dubai, she lived in Qatar🇶🇦 for three years on a work visa, three year contract with an employment agency, she was a manager at a hotel there. Employment Agencies from those Arabic countries recruit a lot from Kenya and Uganda 🇺🇬 because those are countries with Fluent English Speaking people close enough to their countries (4 hour flight on average) that they can pull from for jobs where they desperately need English speaking people. That's because the NATIVE populations of those countries don't speak English, and English is the #1 universal language, and those countries make a lot of their wealth off of tourism, so they need all the English Speakers they can get in the hotels, restaurants, casinos, etc......, and that's something they are not able to get from their native populations. She is there because she helps support her young brother who is in Boarding School in Kisii City or County I forget which, and she helps support her mom, and she's making more money in Dubai than she would be able to in Kenya. So that aspect of her story does support your argument, because she is making a whole lot more money working in Qatar, and Dubai than she would be able to living in Kenya working the same kind of jobs that she normally does. Again I realize it is anecdotal, but I'm counting it as evidence because this is someone I personally know who is from Kenya, and has lived in Qatar, and is currently living in Dubai, and has not experienced anything like what you're talking about in either of those two countries. She has known plenty of other people from Kenya and Uganda in Dubai, and Qatar living on both of those countries under the same circumstances as herself, and none of those folks have been returned to Kenya or Uganda in body bags as you're suggesting, nor been working for pimps, nor been taken as slaves. And Dubai is a Feminist shit hole just like the West, on their passenger rail trains they have female only cars, they have hotels only for women in that country so I really doubt anything that you suggesting is happen to women in that country or Qatar. So again I ask you, do you have any kind of citations for what you are claiming about Arabic Countries?

[@johnmpatama1461]

Why the West is advocating for peace in Kenya and not in Ukraine?. Can i call it double standard??

[@slackerman9758]

The west is advocating for peace in Ukraine.

[@tajirizm2487]

😂😂😂🤭

[@LawrenceMohlala-dh3zi]

The West is using him that's why you hear them speak about peace, their puppet regime is crumbling

[@ndalilodge6557]

They are fucking hypocrites

[@paulalopes70]

They have to take him out Of there this puppet

[@JohnPaul536]

My fellow Kenyan youths lets not get tired , No surrender until we kick Ruto out of the office .

[@andrewillemse2031]

As I always say power to the people because the people are the ones that govern not the government. They are there to make laws based on what the people want and the people have spoken they want a new president.

[@justinenyamao273]

Whether he comes with a bouquet of flowers in his hands,we dont want him

[@ochiramoses7821]

I will always stand with the majority especially the people view, I support kenyans from Uganda

[@burningspear8883]

I disagree with you. Ruto aende akikauka. Ruto anafikiria Kenya ni Kiosk.

[@amanimtd3890]

Aende tuna mtaka Traoré

[@alexaveevelasquez6099]

The people of Kenya fight for your country make a big statement to the 🌍 freedom is everything 🙏

[@periskoigi6088]

This is Africa, leave us alone

[@nicholasouko4898]

She is an African

[@MarkMbithi-nd3sw]

Although I'm a kid in Kenya, he literally must go!

[@yusufismael3271]

Very good Kenyans keep fighting for your rights,u not alone we supported you guys

[@CheekyBird790]

"we have nothing to lose" - famous last words!

[@mukisamargie]

Ruto has many petrol stations in Uganda. Kenyans know that

[@marywilbourne200]

🫨🫨🧐

[@brendamwangi2639]

What!!!

[@thomasveder6073]

🇰🇪Most important: STOP LYING! ❤️

[@samuellopesbaule5745]

He can't stop lying because this is his nature! He has learned that tactic from his EU masters!

[@ecstaticclips]

Ruto must go. Kenya 🇰🇪 let’s go

[@olusolaadesina4623]

Same here in Nigeria we're angry and hungry here in Nigeria too

[@AliHassan-hb1bn]

People realise that the world has changed and there is no discount when it comes to their livelyhoods.

[@ahmedhussein8962]

LEADERSHIPS MUST LISTENING THEIR PEOPLES OTHERWISE GO BACKS MOTHER HOMES!?....

[@lafrancedevalon506]

Shameful is William Ruto

[@lillianwekesa802]

Good job stella,watching from USA

[@Gophiahenry1]

Ruto must go Ruto must go Ruto must go Ruto must go.

[@josephkariuki489]

Ruto has confirmed his illegitimacy. Aende akiendaga. It is not a must that he finishes this terrible one term.

[@clairmontjoseph775]

Very good boot this guy out he is a comealion

[@cmoruri7366]

As the only country in Africa that truly embraced democracy this is very unfortunate

[@afrakanaswahilitv5520]

Comrades do not surrender retreat and reload. Ruto must Go!

[@suchindranathaiyer494]

I wish the Commons of Kenya every success against the corrupt, colonial legacy Government.

[@aaronhunte8768]

True,we have nothing to lose when it comes to freedom

[@BrandyHeng007]

There's a saying "Muturi Niwe Ngo ya Ruriri’ meaning 'A Blacksmith is the shield of the tribe'. Mau Mau Rebellion

[@shack1732]

Let this guy leave office

[@CateLine-v1k]

IAM haïtien i stand with Kenyan people this is the same bad government haiti 🇭🇹 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

[@periskoigi6088]

What's does that know? Nothing! Some are looters and others were sent by sakanja the governor to do destruction

[@rodgersmuyechi5102]

Stela good job we are proud of you,no option for ruto he has no votes even from his backyard riftvalley ,gashagua has captured central,mudavadi cant deliver western votes,nyanza is in hands of raila obvious raila will suport kalonzo,ruto is captured from all auncles

[@asfeshumamo6033]

Ruto he have to find the snake they're coming from Ethio orom very experienced this kind of issues

[@Edmondpro15]

When he was DP , he used not to wear Kaunda suits, but now as president of Kenya, he has changed his dressing style, doning beautiful expensive Kaunda suits at the expense of poor Kenyans, continue squeezing him , he must go

[@carenogalo5319]

We don't want to hear the word "withdrawal " he must Reject the bill, then we can move to the next agenda.

[@petermacharia7171]

Reject the bil

[@carenogalo5319]

@petermacharia7171 appoint of correction accepted. Reject the IMF and world Bank finance bill

[@petermacharia7171]

@@carenogalo5319 💯💯💯

[@mrmoyo2772]

Who feels it knows it all.The mind of the leader must resonate with voices of the electorate.

[@supernaturalmannafor21stce22]

Too late brother Ruto

[@Dr-vr3tu]

You have to wait for your son's and daughters to tell you uko uchi....instead of listening, you fire at them and guys misleading you..are lifted from the KIcc...to safe heavens....

[@thomasveder6073]

Hi. As a humble proposal to reduce the debt I suggest to half the salary of the M.P’s, as well as the remuneration of all the wifes of the president and vice president and all others not belonging to the government. Look then where you stand. Basta Regards Muhd Tariq Veder 🇸🇦 P.S. & don’t take any more credit from sharks like world bank, IMF etc. I forgot former M.Ps.

[@YvonneMulongo-q4p]

ruto must go to sugol right away,jiuzulu zakayo.

[@tafidagadzama9964]

We should do the same in Nigeria at all levels. Tinubu is not the only person but all leaders. Buhari should come and explain or go to jail.

[@AhmedAhmed-ew8hy]

He should be ousted not to resign

[@kimakimatimon3267]

If the Kenyan parliament doesn't come with a resolution with the Ruto govt, the military need to take over until the parliament work together to appoint a caretaker until the nation goes elections. Martha the Attorney General supposedly the top cop is bais and corrupt, she too must go because she's the one that cause this problem right from beginning.

[@uncutit1995]

Until it's done we cannot trust this lying if not flying Zakayo

[@fuzztejpar299]

The bullets were not rubber!

[@seedyceesay9713]

Respect your citizens decision step aside ur Excellency 🙏🤝🙏

[@EstherOnyoro]

Ruto must goo

[@Cts_ville]

We want him out because he's a puppet of you know who,RUTO MUST GO

[@afropanorama4730]

Africa leaders must work with there people's problems and not outsider friends

[@jcfavourglobal]

Malcolm X will be happy with the brave young Kenyans

[@nevermanyika2923]

Thank you 👍 Kenyans zimbos must learn something from you zimbos are not brave we are very afraid to hold the bull by horns

[@chaukelawrence2199]

Ruto is pro Western dominance, as such, he must leave the office.

[@stocks2545]

Nobody wants a puppet for a president. Ruto lazima hio kiti utoke

[@lucasomolo8443]

GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY

[@livinginaustinwithirene]

They killed over 157 people in Nyandarua but reported 20 people. Get to the hospitals.

[@brianokoth459]

We dont want him us our president neither will his administration get away with this😢

[@sekelaningambi3193]

His western bosses are Absolutely scared that their puppet will lose

[@JoiceAkula-ym4uv]

Don't try to arrest any Gen z

[@umibrahimibrahim4966]

From Sudan we also want him out.. he has ties with Al- Janjaweed in Darfur.

[@psychicReadingLostLoveYoutube]

The neighborhood is good? Free consultation to know your challenges and goals.

[@Darwin_ogumo]

#Rutomustgo2024 No retreat No surrender

[@AziengbemiJustice-tw2ch]

Get out right now.

[@teronawillis-wl6gu]

Ruto must go

[@henrysantos7160]

Matatan Ribirin H-S.🤔.

[@bonogoma]

RUTO MUST GO. AFTER TALKING IN NADCO MEETINGS, DISCUSSIONS AND REPORT, NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. KENYA HAS NOT MOVED FORWARD. YOU MEETING GEN Z WILL NOT LOWER THE COST OF LIVING, CORRUPTION. JUST RESIGN AND GO.

[@margaretingasia6346]

Fi ruto Go God Go Go ruto

[@JeanEnolEmile]

Koute Ameriken wap konn George c pou yo metew ate pou Ayiti ou fe avayi-a , metel ate pou neg sot.

[@rigwatvchannel4458]

Those are political games now Remember Ruto has his supporters also

[@namelessOG1]

like you😂,or he bribed you 2M like the MPIGS?

[@PeterSitholecisconerds]

Ruto must go and feed the chickens

[@9843ish]

Ruto has to go home

[@steveodhiambo13]

It takes many years of hard work for a whole community to build a nation, but the action's of one ignorant being can destroy everything in seconds, ruto solely has himself to blame. Thought he could fool all the people all the time, only to realize too little too late the table's have turned.

[@gelehildid4797]

AL SHABAB TRANSFERED TO KENYA. BECAUSE GOV"nt OF SOMALIA IS THERE. EVEN PRES. HASAN SH. OF SOMALIA WENT KENYA 7 TIMES NAIROBI. LAST DAYS.

[@adajiojonimi3254]

I am a Nigerian and I stand with the good people of Kenya in calling for the resignation of Ruto who killed his people and tagged them, “criminals”.

[@evansonjunior7355]

Thank you sir, Africa must stand to fight oppression

[@skywxlfe]

And it's not the first time. Remember his case at the ICC.

[@AbrahamMMcharo]

People are tax pinned, with no return to their lives. The gods get free medical services (local & outside),they even free and yet earn a lot our taxes, that's why killing people is nothing to them.

[@evansonjunior7355]

@@skywxlfe then he stands saying the protestors are criminals

[@adajiojonimi3254]

@@skywxlfe it’s enough, Ruto must go

[@tinabraxton4906]

Cheers and solidarity for the people of Kenya.

[@JamesMoses-jd1yq]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@jackkairu5642]

✊🏾💪🏾

[@ZacharyOndima]

Thank you

[@Kasaijamusa-qd3cq]

Ruto is meter is dictator museveni of uganda whom he takes as he's best friend

[@authorviviannehillary]

​@@Kasaijamusa-qd3cq Studying tips from Museveni on being a master class dictator as if Kenya ni Uganda. Amekipata his time is limited.

[@bayernvoeller]

time to get rid of foreign influence

[@CheekyBird790]

Kenya only has itself to blame for its problems

[@kokohkesiena4403]

Foreign influence oooo

[@jchziwa902]

It us the people to blame ourselves! We go to borrow under the pretext of developing our countries, but most of these loans are looted by the ministers, and other government officials! The debt is pushed to the ordinary citizens by forcing them to settle the debt, while government officials live in opulence! Definitely we need to hold our leaders accountable for the trail of mess they create for an ordinary citizen.

[@wangayatitus7473]

This man is a joke to our country, resigning sooner is better.

[@fancymercy814]

Just look at his facial expressions tells a lot.He a Demon Psychopath full of impunity 😢😢

[@daisydennis6685]

What were you expecting from him. He is mentally ill.

[@Sal.0]

The LUOS will be even WORSE, if they come to power! The OPPOSITION will do EXACTLY the SAME TAX HIKES cause UHURU looted KENYA

[@lynnedarling1135]

Ruto must go.He's killing the youths

[@CheekyBird790]

don't riot and loot! simple!

[@Chrissimpson-oo4qx]

I don't know it looked like the youth doing a pretty good job killing themselves it looks like the king of people are confused if you remove a president like this you only going to call the government to collapse and things are going to go from bad to worse and take really bad for generations to come that's what happens in any other country where you have a successful to overthrow a leadership things always get much worse.

[@wycliffepoet5201]

​@@CheekyBird790your stupid self is everywhere on the comment section

[@IvonivicBusines]

Don't riot or loot

[@nicoledinga9948]

He started with kiambaa

[@zischeshorts]

Ruto is committing crimes against Kenya He is killing us he is insulting us Ruto must go!!

[@DesAsha-bn9wu]

William ruto is whites slavery not leader.majority African leaders are whites maid

[@suluhusamia]

ruto must go

[@alialmaawy8865]

Hata wewe madam president😂

[@Kasaijamusa-qd3cq]

Dont give him break jst continue the protest

[@meditateandrelaxwithut8560]

If all the money they have taken from our taxes for corrupt deals was returned to the govnment coffers, all our debts would be cleared.

[@CheekyBird790]

it doesn't work that way!

[@kinganthonygrounoe7625]

@@CheekyBird790 it works however we want it to work bxx..tch

[@domin842]

What I'm still not understanding is what the housing levy money deducted from our payslips is doing,and also the increase in nssf money from our payslips,where is that money going,then someone wants to defend rutoh that he is not a corrupt leader

[@noraholivemuiruri6644]

That's why we want a new country​@@CheekyBird790

[@meditateandrelaxwithut8560]

@@CheekyBird790 Educate us on how it works.

[@mayrinaidah5463]

As Ugandan one thing I know about Kenyans they are not afraid and for years we have witnessed that. Much love for every Kenyan out there

[@nonameperson5491]

President Ruto: Please listen to the people, talk to them, from your neighbor in Ethiopia.☮☮☮☮ONE AFRICA, IN PEACE AND PROSPERITY.

[@Mr.254r]

He must go home😢😢😢

[@alfalfred8722]

It’s better to continue until he resigns, stopping midway won’t be the best!

[@yohanalemaiyan3076]

We want him out!....we can't contain his corruption with his sycophants and bootlickers at our cost!.... billions of money for foreign trips for his own gains!#rutomustgo!

[@georgemulinke]

We will remain in streets until this guy resigns,viva Kenyans

[@tomochieng280]

Will you manage streets everyday

[@ghsense2626]

After he resigns then what? Another corrupt leader to come?

[@Kukatee24]

Pipe dreams 😂

[@bandaid3398]

If we have to, at some point even his puppet masters won’t want to be associated with that. Otherwise the lives that have been lost already will be in vain

[@periskoigi6088]

@@georgemulinke so utakula mavi yako? Fool, we want to back to work fool

[@itachiuchiha1734]

As a South Sudanese I stand with Kenyan brothers and sisters and demand the resignation of Ruto 😡

[@stocks2545]

Asante ndugu 🙏

[@georgeoromo799]

We all knw that after 14 days this finance bill come into law. Ruto must go period 😢

[@josephorenge731]

Ruto has no option but to resign

[@tomochieng280]

We he really do that

[@missedcall.254]

day dreamers are real. Wait for2027

[@Chrissimpson-oo4qx]

This looks more like some Foreigner invention paying terrorists to try to overthrow the canyon government because they know what you over for our city government. Things always get worser they must really want to collapse the government of Kenya.

[@CheekyBird790]

the next guy could be worse.. careful what you wish for. Remember Mugabe? did lots of good things for Zimbabwe in his early days and then turned into a tyrant.

[@albertmatunda5387]

Fake

[@katatatv2410]

Alot of our brothers have died in the struggle for a better tomorrow ✊ ALUTA CONTINUA... VIVAA comrades🇰🇪

[@duncanokongo9145]

Ruto you are a BIG FOOL!

[@periskoigi6088]

@@duncanokongo9145 okay,I'm watching

[@t.danno3644]

Continue watchin ..

[@Lovely80077]

*@duncanokongo9145* a big fool or an educated billionaire? Life is confusing us at somepoint sijui ni ujinga ya commoners or its umaskini promax doing our heads

[@coolclips4503]

No country should invite ruto the guy has let alost of ppl die

[@EvansMakori-DS-AI]

275 people died in Gethurai, More than 30 died in parliament ground

[@georgesalano5771]

@evans, please get your numbers right before posting lies here.The number of deaths are not what you are claiming.

[@missedcall.254]

why burn down and loot other people's properties not unless you want anti-riot police do what they get paid for?

[@anitahscorner]

Talk about the two children in Rongai Yesterday 😢

[@Lulu-po3kn]

Ruto had fooled with international community with his sweet talking but now the entire world knows the truth because Kenya is in the headlines every day.

[@godvrezende]

Ruto has failed

[@SarcasticSplendor]

Ruto has *lamentably* failed.

[@AbigaelNdiga]

Very true

[@naggarwal67]

The cost of government and governance has to be brought under control

[@annaorwa1742]

His vengeful, his facial expression sells him out, and he rarely speaks the truth.

[@SarcasticSplendor]

He must be *psychopathic* !