Frank Okoth speaks on surviving six police bullets from anti-Finance Bill demos After Viral Photos
Frank Okoth speaks on surviving six police bullets from anti-Finance Bill demos After Viral Photos:On Tuesday last week, during the first of that week’s anti-Finance Bill protests in Nairobi, videos of Frank Okoth, a young Gen Z protestor, circulated widely on social media.
They showed him either gasping for air, his body riddled with bullets or being taken into an ambulance, seemingly lifeless, hours after being shot by police during the protests at Parliament.
He is currently bedridden in his home, which he shares with his grandmother. According to okoth, his push to protest was fuel by his state of joblessness
“Before maandamano I had gone to look for work but was unsuccessful, so I went for the protests”
He joined those near the Parliament building as a group stormed the National Assembly.
There were a lot of us but I was among the people at the front, I started telling the police we came in peace but they threw tear gas at us.)
He continued
“Sa hawa wa mbele ndio walikuwa wanaangalia sana, lakini wenye walikuwa kando ndio wali shoot”
He was shot and videos later showed him being carried into an ambulance where he was rushed to KNH.
He woke up days later at the medical facility, where doctors had operated on him multiple times to try and dislodge the bullets.
‘A friend of mine came and told me people had already killed me out there but I assured him I was alive and well.”
“Kutoka nitoke hospitali, hakuna mtu ananishughulikia. maisha tu ni kulala hapa yani vennye tu niko hapa, siwezi pinduka”
Okoth now decries the huge bill of 45k that he is supposed to offset, Highlighting that the grandmother has no money.
“Bill ya elfu arubaini and tano, na sina hata shillingi moja, niko na kitabu saa hii na nimechanga shillingi mia tano”
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