Police in Kenya are responding to protests over a controversial tax bill that is expected to raise $2.7 billion in additional taxes. The protests have led to more than 100 hundred arrests and at least one person killed.
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#Kenya #Protests #WorldNews
Tell me the governments don’t have their own agenda
“SEEK YHWH (GOD), all you MEEK OF THE EARTH, who have upheld His justice. Seek RIGHTEOUSNESS, seek HUMILITY. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s ANGER” Zephaniah 2:3
They’re struggling and the Government knows this
Ruto must go
N(o) B(lacks) C(onsidered). Thanks democraps.
This guy won’t be president for long.
I’m a well off Kenyan. And I can understand, even if I don’t agree with the government going after wealth. But a tax on bread. 16 percent. This doesn’t affect the middle class and well off, but it will hurt the poor. I believe all tax hurts everybody, and I know some people believe wealth is derived from government even if I disagree. But a tax on bread is a tax on people struggling. It is nothing to those who are out of poverty but a burden on those still in it. If the Government wants money then clean up corruption first. Instead they target the private sector and citizens. Which will hurt the people. I think a lot of Kenyans would be less upset about taxation if they drove on flat roads without potholes or saw their social services being provided. Take care of the government first before you ask the people to sacrifice. Otherwise it’s just more money for people in power to steal.
New age slavery. Taxes and fines.
Mr. President,
Do you want to compare our country with developed countries?
Do you want to force the economy to change overnight to make Kenya developed?
If that is the case, then you are wrong.
Developed countries took toddler steps to be where they are today economically and technologically.
A good Example is South Korea that had independence around the same time Kenya did get it’s independence.
While they were developing their country , you and your former boss President Moi were stealing money and helping him to bribe Kenyans to re-elect him again and again- an act the stepped backwards our country’s potential to grow economically.
You did the same in the time of President Kibaki.
You did the same with Uhuru Kenyatta and during those years you never thought of developing our country.
Now you are the president and you are telling Kenyans to be taxed the same as those countries that were focused on developing their countries step by step long time ago! They are far a head of us economically.
Do you want us to sell our family cows and chickens overnight and give you all our money and even our blood for taxes to you to develop Kenyan overnight?
To us gen z it sounds like the magical children wishes of a grade three children. We you to know that the world is watching to see the African man who fronts himself to be an African leader without no one appointing him while his people in his country can’t afford the basics of life. It is a shame
Seemingly You have zero ideas of starting to grow the Kenyan economy.
And now the only thing you believe will grow the Kenyan economy overnight is over taxing poor Kenyans?
How wrong!
You can’t build the Kenyan economy in one day my friend.
Rome was built in decades and centuries to be where it is today.
Same should be our beautiful Kenya. Start from ground zero.
If you have no idea what that means, let gen z pick the young leader who they believe will accomplish that.
You need your presidential administration to up their IQs or you replace them with those who can give you new, better and updated ideas that would propel this country into abetter and strong economic future that would last forever.
Otherwise you have no function in that office Mr. president. This is 2024.
You are living in the eras of your former boss Mr. Nyayo.
As a young generation, We don’t like what you and your late boss did to our parents and grandparents.
This is a new generation. New era. We need a new Kenya. We can’t rest until we live our Kenyan dream. A dream where all of us will have good news generation politicians who would treat us as one family and not as different tribes.
We are all one big Kenyans family. We want to live that way with peace, love and harmony.
We need leaders who can do keep us that way.
Not a tribal leader who twists the minds of our young brothers and bribes them to go and for ethnic cleansing in the name of the slogan of “Ondoa Madoadoa “. Many of Our brothers and sisters died with kind of slogan.
We need to live better lives like our gen z age mates in Southern Korea, Singapore, US, etc.
We need better and modern transportation systems in the country, good infrastructure, good Medicare systems, good security without police brutality imposed by you and so forth.
If you can’t do any of these things or at least show some efforts of accomplishing them, then you don’t have any purpose in that office.
Then come 2027, we can’t rest until we replace you with a new generational leader.
We are the Millennial and -gen Z. We are one family. We demand for better lives. This is our country, our home we are and will forever be proud of with our future generations.
We love you all fellow millennial and gen-zs.
One family one love. We demand in peace.
He is getting help from Liberals.. Can’t wait for Trump to assume office..
#rejectfinancebill2024
Ruto is a devil
# GEN Z KENYA 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
MANY YOUTHS ARE GRADUATES AND JOBLESS WE’RE SUFFERING WE’RE GOING THROUGH DEPRESSION
🇰🇪 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 🇰🇪 😊
Wewe tupee kazi acha ujinga ya under tax
This human sold us sand in the name of fertilizer,ehat kind of a leader is this even my village elder is far way better
Ruto must Go
Great to see Kenyans stand up. These crooked politicians are a problem globally!
TUESDAY IS COMING!! …TICK TICK TICK
https://youtu.be/flF2KUchYuA?si=sKloD95ZLnE8ZTte
Ruto must go!!!
Hope haiti gangs are watching…
Shi
Very good my brother and sisters we are with you ❤️
Useless leader you are going home 2027 straight to sugoi you will not trade with Kenyans using wazungu pls
Yes, they pay high taxes that does not help a single person other than you politicians. It is about time the youth does something. Make him a 1 term President
Aki just hear him, eti we are under taxed?? 😢
Bob Marley said CHASE THOSE CRAZY BALD HEADS OUT OF TOWN.
Ruto is a snake. A thief, a hypocrite, a false prophet. He is a national disaster.
Next time is Uganda
Ruto is a USA puppet! USA wants control of Kenya without the world knowing! What’s new? 🤦🏾♂️
Ruto Goooooo !
Ruto degage
Start taxing those members of parliament cut down on their salaries & lavish life styles we are under taxed & yet during kibaki reign he did a lot with that low tax you are talking about.
Start by being a leader for the people of Kenya who are in- directly your employer.
We need changes not dictatorship!
Somebody should not politicize the protests.
little ruto is now learning what is the consequences of putting nose in “Hayti” business😂😂😂… Hold on sovereign people, the first Black Empire to fight slavery and all forms of abuse is with you, we’re one in this fight against imperialism
Ruto must go
Cut on Expenditure……are the words
Ruto must go
Ruto can’t solve problems in his country but he was busy lecturing Russia about Ukraine
IMF World bank
This is new president it means you can’t make world happy I support president museveni
It’s nice that the people are united. The penalty for doing this in Turkey is 7 years. The one-man regime will destroy the country and the parliamentary system will survive. Greetings from Turkey to my Kenyan brothers.
RUTO MUST GO
Ruto must go
RUTO Asahau uongozi 2027
Ruto must go..
Really
The World is Watching! Rights to picket peacefully!
If only our taxes were well utilized
Ruto and his government are all Western puppets..they must go!!!!
A pathological lie president
❤🇿🇦✊️
At our own risk
Africa don’t need no puppet president
If you want to com en haïti you are a dog policeman usa
Williams Ruto is a criminal to do US dirty jobs to bring invate HAITI 🇭🇹. I have no respect for this puppet, poppy Williams Ruto. Haitian people don’t want any invasion in our country, Haiti. US is the one behind all this chaos in my country. Enough is enough
Ruto ata akiongea na sisi …bado tutafanya maandamamo …
Ruto should take example from Burkinafaso president, so shame on cost of citizen they are living a luxury life
# Ruto must go
Niatolewe tuchague tena
“We can’t just be praying all our problems away” 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
#rejectfinance bill
Now he needs those 1000 policemen back in Kenya 😅😅😅😅😅 how dumb can you be ,Ja Baas 😅😅
Ruto is a pathological liar and hides in the church….wolf in sheep’s clothing
You can’t further tax a broke economy
he saying we are paying less where will that money come from no jobs for youth the government offices are full of ghost workers
Ruto is taking Kenya down to another struggle for independence,yet we are free.mesanger of lies
Ruto must go,tumechoka na wewe
Our issue is that we dont see where ouymr taxes are going. Not only that, this fool taxed everything except our voices. He will somehow find a way to do that because content creators are also being taxed.
Ruto and his corrupt government MUST go. Life is getting harder everyday for the average kenyan. Education and maternal health are no longer accessible. Mandatory vaccines for children under 5 are missing in public failities. At the same time, politicians salaries are the highest in the world as compared to the country’s GDP, by far. There is open corruption, with billions of public funds being looted everyday but no one being charged. Politicians are the richest they have ever been, with us seeing luxury in Kenya we haven’t seen before that is acquired with our hard-earned money
-Then these thieves in suits dont even stop there. They have the audacity to ask for allowances for their wives on the taxpayer’s sweat
-From where? Diapers, sanitary towels which are already unaffordable to a good percentage of the kenyan society
WHAT WE THE GEN Z ARE SAYING, “When INJUSTICE becomes LAW, RESISTANCE becomes DUTY.”
#Rejectfinancebill2024
Kenya président a na ingia madarakani na tama wenzake wa na kula midomo yenye ku fungwa yeye menu ni wazi i na geuka kanya ya ku lopola ma y a wa amerika kunja ku uwa wa afrika Mungu a mpe mshara .
The president is right to increase the taxes for something that will have positive effect on the long run. Nevertheless, nobody likes taxes.
The protests have NOT been violent, the Police are the ones who have been violent.
CUT GOVERNMENT EXPENSES
Our taxes are below cause no jobs pay we can’t keep making the rich richer while the poor get poorer
corruption and wastage of public resources must end in this country
Ruto is a thief a dictator wanna be
#rejectfinancebill2024
Zakayo unasema Nini….ulaaniwe
Ruto be warned! Anyone who befriends Joe Biden ends up in the dust bin, like you.
so no western backed leaders much recpect to kenyan people
I been to Kenya it’s massive country and gorgeous too, hopefully they can overcome these obstacles and became rich with everything they have
Our two biggest problems have been tribalism and corruption. The Gen Z protesters are the first of their kind not driven by tribal issues. Older politicians are still playing tribal politics especially in the mount Kenya region. Gen Z have shown us what we can achieve if we come together as Kenyans regardless of tribe.
The bread one is definitely intentional to harm the lower class.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! #CyberpunkIsNow
Reject finance bill 2024
#RejectFinanceBill2024
I hope the Kenyans “take care of” all of their politicians.
IT LOOKS LIKE A MINI US CAPITOL RIOTS. 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Nyamaza
Choma hii kenya ,#rutomustfall
Taxing basic food such as bread is really bad. That should never be taxed so heavily. 16% is a lot.
Ruto is a dictator and a corrupt leader who has borrowed 7 trillions in less than 2yrs for his own gain
Genz’s can’t tolerate that
16% on bread is insane. No countries is that high
President William Ruto loves Haiti more than Kenya!
Ruto, you are a liar and a hypocrite!
Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but not the beam in yours?
Do not judge, lest you be judged.
With the judgment with which you judge, they will judge you, and with the measure with which you measure, they will measure you.
Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, and why do you not see the speck in your own?
Or how can you say to your brother:
Let me take a speck out of your eye, you who have a beam in yours?
Hypocrite, first take the speck out of your eye, and then you will see how to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Insecurity in Kenya is much greater in Kenya than in Haiti.
Know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
Kenyans, as your brother from Uganda, I want to inform you to be cautious of that man. He could end up becoming the Museveni of Kenya. Recently, he has been visiting Museveni frequently, and what he has learned from here is what we call Musevenism. This is a situation that a dictator Museveni uses to cling to power and keep people in poverty, making citizens beggars while bribing parliament members to stay in control. My Friends Kenyan kindly resist this dictatorship, which we, in Uganda call Musevenism, that he wants to impose on you with the influence of his mentor, Museveni.
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HE NEEDS TO RESIGN NOW!!
Powerful to you people
This is what happens when you implement a system on white surpremacy…s/o Tariq Nasheed for opening my eyes to it.
President luuto lun out in Kenya go go
There are continuing to buy 🚗 where’s we are suffering
Ata hao mapolice watumiwa visivyo mungu anaweza kuwapeana kwa halishababi