Chaos As Police Fire Teargas, Arrest Protesters Heading to Parliament
Chaos As Police Fire Teargas at university lectures who were marching towards Parliament in an effort to disperse them.
The lecturers, under their trade union Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU), were marching to present their petitions to Parliament on a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that they had entered into with the government, but has not been implemented.
Lecturers were, therefore, forced to run and seek shelter as the smoke from the teargas canisters rented the air.
Businesses and people around town were equally caught in the standoff after they were forced to run following tear gas smoke that rented the air.
Videos circulating online showed people in Nairobi’s Central Business District running away with their noses covered as they questioned why the police were throwing teargas canisters at them.
‘’What is wrong with these people(the police),’’ a voice could be heard shouting in the middle of the confusion.
Some staff of the unions were also arrested during the strike with videos from the scene showing police forcefully arresting a female staff at the Ministry of Education offices, before bangling her in a nearby police car.
”Leave me alone, what have I done to be arrested?” The unidentified female staff could be heard pleading with the police.
The lecturers began a nationwide industrial action after the government failed to honour their part of the CBA.
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