CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: What’s Happening in Kenya? Parliament Burns as Protesters Oppose New Taxes, Clashes Spread, Several Dead [#KenyaProtests]
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Source: Citizen TV Kenya X Account, @citizentvkenya
In the most direct attack on the government in decades, thousands of protesters over a new finance bill entered Kenya’s parliament building on Tuesday and set fire to part of it.
Journalists discovered at least 3 dead bodies outside the complex after cops opened fire.
Clashes erupted in other cities.
Protesters had urged that legislators vote against the bill putting extra taxes on a country, East Africa’s economic heartland, where dissatisfaction with the high cost of living has been simmering for years.
Youth who had cheered President William Ruto into office on his promises of economic relief flocked to the streets to protest the agony of reforms.
However, lawmakers voted to pass the bill before fleeing down a tunnel as protestors, many of whom were young people, outmanoeuvred police to enter parliament.
Protesters allowed opposition MPs who voted against the bill to leave the besieged building.
The fire was later extinguished.
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