Chaos as Police deploy water cannons, Several Arrested In Nairobi CBD
Chaos as Police deploy water cannons, Several Arrested In Nairobi CBD: Police officers stationed in the Nairobi Central Business District have arrested a section of Kenyans protesting the Finance Bill 2024.
In a video circulating online, police officers in uniform and civilian clothes handcuffed Kenyans wearing black T-shirts and forced them onto a stationary police van.
The Kenyans could be heard shouting slogans, pushing for the rejection of the contentious Finance Bill 2024 that proposes draconian taxes on Kenyans undergoing a harsh economic period
Down down finance bill. Kenyans, why am I being arrested? Do not accept that Finance Bill,” a handcuffed man wearing a black shirt chanted as he was escorted by police officers near the Kencom building in Nairobi.
“Why are you arresting me? We are peaceful people,” the detainees could be heard telling the police officers.
section of Kenyans convened under the hashtags #RejectFinanceBill2024 and #OccupyParliament to express mass anger on punitive tax laws at the proposal stage of the National Assembly.
Netizens united to compel Members of Parliament to shoot down the controversial bill
Nairobi Regional Commander Adamson Bungei however, dismissed the plans to organise any protest in Nairobi.