(26 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nairobi, Kenya – 26 June 2024
1. Various of political analyst Javas Bigambo
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Javas Bigambo, political analyst:
"Legislation should be done in the interest of the people. When the people speak, the leaders or their representatives should listen. The events of yesterday where the people breached the walls or the fence of parliament and invaded it. Itself, beyond demonstrating the national rage against the legislators, is symbolic, in fact and deed, that they have moved to parliament to withdraw the delegated sovereign power that they had bestowed upon the legislators."
3. Various of Bigambo
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Javas Bigambo, political analyst:
"The president has looked at it from the aftermath perspective of the unrest, not the cause or root of the unrest. He neglected, his speech neglected addressing the cause or root of the unrest and beyond the criminal justice system as the solution or the fitting intervention of the unrest moving forward. He forgot to address the civil way in which this unrest can be quelled across the country."
5. Various of Bigambo
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Javas Bigambo, political analyst:
"What we are likely to see are numerous cases of apprehension or arresting of people, we are likely to see various people arraigned in courts after the directorate of criminal investigations, sanctions in the prosecution, some will be trumped up charges. We are also potentially likely to see cases of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances to deal with the so-called criminal elements in the society."
7. Various of Bigambo
STORYLINE:
Kenyans woke up to the acrid smell of tear gas still lingering in the capital on Wednesday, a day after protesters stormed parliament amid violent demonstrations over a controversial tax plan during which at least six people have been killed.
As the day began, there were no reports of violence.
Police and soldiers patrolled the streets as city workers began cleaning up debris.
Parliament, the city hall and the supreme court were cordoned off with tape reading “Crime Scene Do Not Enter.”
During an interview with Associated Press, political analyst Javan Bigambo said Tuesday’s protest were akin to Kenyans "withdrawing the delegated sovereign power that they had bestowed upon the legislators."
Bigambo also faulted president William Ruto’s speech to the nation after the protests.
"His speech neglected addressing the cause or root of the unrest and beyond the criminal justice system as the solution or fitting intervention of the unrest moving forward. He forgot to address the civil way in which this unrest can be quelled across the country," Bigambo said.
The military was deployed overnight to support police on Tuesday night, as President William Ruto called the events treasonous and vowed to quash the unrest “at whatever cost.”
Kenya has been rocked by massive protests for over a week in opposition to a proposed finance bill that would raise taxes as frustrations over the cost of living are simmering.
Many young people who helped vote Ruto into power with cheers for his promises of economic relief have taken to the streets to object to the pain of reforms.
Thousands of protesters stormed Kenya’s parliament Tuesday, burning parts of the building while legislators fled.
Police responded with gunfire and several protesters were killed.
The city mortuary told The Associated Press that it received six bodies from police on Tuesday.
Videos of gunfire piercing the night air were shared online.
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