Intense clashes and protests are happening in Kenya after lawmakers in the country voted to approve a proposal that is expected to raise taxes. NBC News’ Daniele Hamamdjian reports on how the Kenyan government is responding to the demonstrators.
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#Kenya #Protests #taxes
The international community should sanction this criminal and have him arraigned at the ICC.
He already has a file in ICC from instigating 2007 post-election violence. He’s already violated terms of his release. ICC should reopen the file and lock him up!
This will begin to happen on all continents
The storm is coming
California should take notes 💀
2.7 billion lol Africans have no idea how to build a stable economy
Americans, take note!
Wouldn’t it be interesting if all Americans could unite against greedy corporations and government taxes
What is interesting is that MAGA actually supports greedy corporations and a corrupt government. They just vote against their own interest because they have been gaslit into confusion on whose side they are on. Trump is funded by greedy corps and corrupt government but lies to them to tell them otherwise while they raise their voice in support of him. It is why the world laughs at gullible people like this. Kenya must have thought they had the same, but no.
Democrats will have you believe that paying taxes are a part of living in a civilized society. 🤣
Wdym violent we were peaceful till they started
support from USA!!!
Useless politicians your time is here😢😢😂😂
Thursday loading
Drains and taxes……… decide………… I do not speak for the leader
And museveni is there stealing from Ugandans who are helpless. Africa needs revival.
Canada is nothing but slavery. It is near the end of the immigrant welfare gravy train. No more heating next winter in Canada because of Carbon tax fraud. You will own nothing and die hungry and cold.
BIDENS FOULT
80% are youth??? 😮
ICC loading again this man has blood of innocent people in his hands 2007…and now again no way
TRUMP 2024
I wonder if Californians are taking Note
So in Kenya it’s called a protest and in America it’s called an insurrection?
Tax the poor
Ruto tells us he is broke and walks around in designer shoes. We can’t be taxed to fund His extravagant lifestyle. RUTO GO HOME.
Who cares usual suspects
Your headline is so wrong please correct.
IMF AND WORLD BANK SHERLOCKS KEEP OFF KENYA🇰🇪🇰🇪
When the madness of an entire nation disturbs a solitary mind, it is not enough to say the man is mad.
America is next 😮 because Trump is making sure of it with his Naziism K K K WHITE SUPREMACY MILITARY SECRETS SOLD TO SAUDI ARABIA😮 GING AND POOTIN HACKING THE AIRWAVES ON A DAILY BASIS😮 WOE🥀
IMF CAUSED THIS CHAOS NOT PRESIDENT RUTO!
How i wish it is my country Nigeria, Kenya people i hail you
My husband and I were just there a couple of weeks ago and this topic and the inability to feed their families because of this tax bill was a topic of conversation for EVERY young person we spoke with. It was interesting to see and speak to many who felt the same – unheard, and locked out of decisions that impacted them so heavily. It is so unfortunate that government would not listen to them 😢 we spoke with a group of seniors who told us of the insane government spending yet there are over 1 million ppl in the slums in Nairobi…. I can’t imagine a day in their shoes so I dare not condemn the Kenyan people ❤💚🖤🤍
Why would they mention Obama? He doesn’t care about his half family.
Kenya is a democratic country no dictatorship so protest is a must
See what right wing causes. Chaos
ooga booga bogga
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OBUMA FOR PRESIDENT IN KENYA 😅
This is why they dont want you to have guns btw so when the people in charge need to be held accountable they can safely hide in the towers you paid for
Lawmakers just love getting rich off of screwing people over👁️
A puppet for a president if cancer
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Auau? The president is from Kenyan???Even said Hawaiii???😂😂😂
ohhh
Hei Brazillians, check this out! #OutLula
The problem is not about taxes rather how the President together with his team of incompetent cabinet are spending our monies.
Your headline is incredibly misleading.
NBC at last captured the news
….with the wrong headline.
Go Kenya Yay
Remember them sending police to Haiti just the day before? Nice timing.
Ruto is a culmination of poor leadership. Kenyans were expecting much better leadership, during corana, money was set aside for entertainment where as kenyans were striving to put food on the table, food prices sky rocketed there after, we were made to believe that dynasty was the problem, we voted for Ruto believing our lives will change. KRA jobs ended up in hands of the chosen few with god father’s, TSC jobs given to the ‘who knows who’ no employment, no development, our hospital are medicine less, our mps are flashing out their expensive lifestyle while getting food to a normal mwananchi is a problem let alone funding the expesive education. Free education has been converted to mp programs and a campaign tool. Pple are tired Mr president. Show concern to the pple of Kenya!!!
Now that’s an insurrection
That is an insurrection according to the left . Imagine a Obama being involved in a insurrection….
Hire some black and African correspondents and co-hosts to cover this story.
Spot on! Better yet, hire Kenyans to cover their own story.
Barrack Obama is one of the globalists behind this mess. That half sister of his was only there for the cameras.
Visited Kenya in 2021. The Kenyans were so kind to me. Keep fighting the good fight, my lovely Kenyan comrades! Warning to Biden that patriotic Americans will fight like the brave Kenyans if our taxes are indeed raised for silly socialist garbage ❤️🖤💚
we shall fight for our future we can’t start families becoz of this punitive government’s & their cropt taxes our parents have been stranded & sucked clean out of every little money they have left we have siblings to take care off unatoka colle hakuna kazi uki enda nyayo house hongo tu na bado your lil bro/sis ana ingia the same system no we are tired njia ya kifo sisi sote lazima tuta pita viva!!!
Wish we rioted like this here in the united states over taxes especially since in my state 2,000 people per year lose their homes due to property tax.
RIOTERS
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They can’t even keep up with the way of living in that country and on top of that they wanna raise taxes, is gonna be Sri Lanka way of protest over again.
This is the result of smart people being governed by puppet leaders.
Our condolences to the deceased. Peaceful protesters were shot by snipers from rooftops. Human rights violation! President Ruto forgets very quickly that he was in ICC because of instigating PEV 2007. ICC re-open Ruto’s file! Lock him up!
Ruto must go to prison for killing peaceful protesters!
Ruto Must Go!! Resign🇰🇪🇰🇪
That detroit?
He thinks that he created this government,he should ask his ancestor The late Moi ,who ruled over 25 years but still stepped down😅
This is how they treat Caucasians in the US.
https://youtu.be/lG7Ott97f90?si=9yAasE0Mb-H73x30
Proud to be a Kenyan ,we are tired of this tyrant called president,he is willing to give his wife 685Million Shillings and we are the one to be taxed
Until the Kenyans unite and stand up they will continue to die on their knees. They have already let this go on far too long. This situation isn’t restricted to only Kenya.
The Police acting like homelanders. Ruto and his corruption must go.
ENOUGH! NO MORE GETTING FAT ON KENYANS TAX MONEY AS WE TURN THE OTHER CHEEK! NO MORE PROMISES!
We need ruto exposed in international media. They have been killing unarmed protesters and kidnapping lawyers, doctors and protest organizers. This is the true face of ruto. He is calling this a conversation for your benefit.
ruto is killing us because we are tired of funding his extravagance, looting and unconstitutional offices.
How many times does it have to be openly announced that so many people will die, or more correctly, miss the transformation that must come about before people will understand and accept the truth about the evolution (or ascension) of humanity? We have been getting this message for years now. Wars, violence, corruption, hatred, selfishness, and practically all negativity is coming to an end.
We are fighting the Imperialist and COlonial Regime. We know the policies are from IMF and World Bank. We shall not be puppets of the West.
I remember, about 3 or 4 years ago, seeing a video about a lady explaining how humanity was exponentially heading for the form of an upside-down pyramid. The few who have eons of ruling the many will be at the bottom and those who have ruled over, suppressed, tortured, enslaved, and almost wiped out will take back their sovereignty. So now I am starting to see it happen. I have to admit Mike Adams was one of those who seemed to have inside info on this.
America-Biden get out of our government
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Ruto must go and that’s our the slogan we the Kenyans
Ruto is not one of us😊
No. Those are mostly peaceful. You guys set that bar for protests, remember?
Imf finance bill. we need kenyan finance bill
IMF told Ruto raise taxes.
Reject the West
https://youtu.be/DJu489x6twY?si=Igml0QgA-X9_571N
Apparently, the U.N. is forcing africans to fight revolutionaries from haiti
Thanks for this report, NBC News. I am a Kenyan and I do not believe that the protests above were genuine or spontaneous. I believe they were staged and orchestrated, as staged and as orchestrated as the storming of Capitol Hill, USA, in January 2021, by supporters of then outgoing US President, Donald Trump. Conflict, war, “refugee camps,” the United Nations (UN), Governments, Aid Agencies, very sadly so, are “big business,” and other than that conflict, war and “refugee camps,” also very sadly so, are part of “divide and rule.”
What do I mean by conflict, war, “refugee camps,” the United Nations (UN), Governments, Aid Agencies, are “big business?” Here in Kenya, in East Africa, for example, there are two major refugee camps in North Western and North Eastern Kenya, both of which turn 33 years old in 2024. The one in North Western Kenya is known as Kakuma, and was brought about by conflict in 1991 in neighbouring Sudan, conflict that is still ongoing. The one in North Eastern Kenya is known as Dadaab, and was brought about by conflict in 1991 in the neighbouring countries of Ethiopia and Somalia, conflict that is still ongoing in Somalia, conflict that has however since died down in Ethiopia.
Kakuma and Dadaab are both well serviced complexes, that even have WI-FI connections, which is why I say conflict, war, “refugee camps,” the United Nations (UN), Governments, Aid Agencies, are “big business.” I take no pride or joy whatsoever in stating that conflict, war, “refugee camps,” the United Nations (UN), Governments, Aid Agencies, are “big business,” but this is a very sad reality.
Kenya’s 4th President, Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya from 2013 to 2022, almost even shut down both Kakuma and Dadaab, owing to the high costs of running both Kakuma and Dadaab, high costs that are partly met by the Kenya Government. Uhuru Kenyatta had wanted donor agencies to shield the Kenya Government from rising costs of running both Kakuma and Dadaab, though Uhuru Kenyatta’s plea to donor agencies for bigger financial support in running both refugee camps, was turned down.
I don’t believe, either, that the Russia-Ukraine war that started in January 2022 is genuine, neither do I believe that the conflict in Gaza, in the Middle East, that has been ongoing now since October 2023, is genuine. The ongoing conflict in Gaza continues to create hatred between Palestinians and Jews, with children, for example, both Palestinian and Jewish children, today in 2024, who will grow up hating each other. In other words, the next generations of “hatred,” and the next generations of “divide and rule,” in Gaza, have been ignited.
How about us here in Kenya? Kenya was a British Colony from 1920 to 1963, and a State of Emergency was declared in Colonial Kenya on 20th October 1952, by Kenya’s then Colonial Governor, Sir Evelyn Baring. The State of Emergency was declared to enable the British Colonial Government in Kenya, at the time, to combat a grouping known as the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (“Mau Mau”), who’s declared intention was to end colonial rule in Kenya. The State of Emergency lasted for seven years until 31st December 1959.
It was a sham State of Emergency, though, who’s key beneficiaries were British companies that manufactured military equipment. The Kenya Land and Freedom Army (“Mau Mau”), at it’s peak, had 4,000 members, and only operated in small areas of the Mt. Kenya Forest in Central Kenya. The size of the Mt. Kenya Forest, as a whole, is about 2,000 square kilometres, yet the approximate size of Kenya, as a whole, back then and today, is 580,000 square kilometres, so why was it necessary to declare a State of Emergency over the whole of Kenya back then? If anything, the Mt. Kenya Forest should have been surrounded and cordoned off by Kenya’s security forces back then, to neutralise the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (“Mau Mau”), similar to what happened with regard to the Battle of Leningrad of World War II.
Villagisation (Internal Refugee Camps), were another feature of Kenya’s State of Emergency of 1952 to 1959, vast well serviced Internal Refugee Camps back then, equivalents back then, of Kakuma and Dadaab, mentioned above.
Hopefully, the stage is not being set for the declaration of another State of Emergency in Kenya, today, in 2024. It’s very sad though, that all of us around the world right now, including us here in Kenya, have been reduced to living on hope.
Regards, Michael M. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, 26th June 2024.
Yeah, and so when are the American people going to go to Washington DC and all these horrible democrat states capitals that are destroying this country in the world and protest and get them out of power these Democrats controlled by big business paying the main stream news media to lying about whatever agenda they want to keep the dem sheep politicians in power to make money to line there pocket ,they dont care about us citizens they only want tax us to death and rule us to death us the people are tired of this we control our money not you we want back control vote trump
Dude this is about Kenya stop being so self obsessed for a moment
Vote trump for good change
2024, in a world of such abundance. we cant afford food. Governments of the world are clowns
This President will soon lose power.
2:49 ati the us is closely monitoring their puppet being shown dust. Please US that is a kenyan matter, why monitor it?
You haven’t documented the whole story well😢
Ruto has to go. he is a pathological lier
The tyrannical style of William Ruto and his puppets around need to stop
Ruto must resign
Man,I love my country,Kenya
Kenyans showed the world the power of citizens
Free Kenya love 🇰🇪🇰🇪
Oh look, sh*thole countries doing sh*thole country stuff.
Most African leaders are heartlessly greedy and wicked. To need to accept Jesus
Protests should be more civil, but the police must not overreact to the civilians!