A photo capturing the moment when anti-riot police pointed a gun at a Gen Z protester holding a bottle of water has sparked widespread discussion among Kenyans.The image, which quickly went viral on social media, shows the tension and intensity of the ongoing protests.
Many have expressed outrage over the apparent use of excessive force against peaceful demonstrators, while others debate the circumstances leading up to the confrontation.
This powerful snapshot has become a symbol of the broader struggle for justice and the right to protest in Kenya.
Armed with creative minds, versatile social media skills, smartphones and well-wishers support, young people poured into the streets of Nairobi on Tuesday and Thursday, June, 20, to protest against Finance Bill, 2024.The agitation is not just about the total rejection of the Finance Bill, 2024, but it will be a sustained political consciousness to defend the Constitution, planners of the protests.
According to Kenyans who reacted, What threat did this young man pose? If the policeman had pulled the trigger, how could such a death have been justifiable even to his conscience?
This photos emerges hours after Rex, another young Kenyan who was in the streets yesterday peacefully exercising his constitutional right was taken out by a trigger happy cop! A life of an innocent citizen cut short just because the government decided to use brutal force unjustifiably, imagining that’s how it will suppress our voices.
Kenyans on X are ungovernable as they seek justice for one of their own shot in the anti-finance bill protests on Thursday, June 20.
By Newsmedia