(12 Jul 2024)
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Nairobi, Kenya – 12 July 2024
1. Various of students from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) protesting and blocking Thika Superhighway
2. Various of students protesting on the highway
3. Set up shot of Vera Achieng, a student at JKUAT
4. SOUNDBITE (English and Kiswahili) Vera Achieng a student at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT):
"Ruto dissolving the cabinet does not mean anything. It has nothing, totally nothing. He has to go home. Ruto is someone who is a liar. He might have lied to us that he has dissolved the cabinet. He has to go home; he is corrupt, he is a liar, he is a thief, he is the devil himself. He is the Satan himself. We are dealing with the Satan. Ruto has to go. He has to go home. He has to go back to Sugoi (referring to Ruto’s hometown). There is nothing we can do with him. We want new faces. We want new people. We want change and the change begins here and now."
5. Various of protesters carrying placards of missing people
6. Various of residents standing around an abandoned quarry where dead bodies are being discovered by residents
7. Various of body being lifted out of the quarry covered in bags and blankets and in a police pick up
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Fred Jiro Rapid Response officer at Arc Africa, a grass roots human rights group:
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“Mr. William Ruto you have failed the people, you have failed the masses, and all these things are a clear pointer and indication that you need to vacate that office and so we will still call our people, we still call comrades and the masses let us stand up, let us push until William Ruto and Koome (Police Inspector General) and all these buggers leave the office.”
9. Various of protesters and riot police
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of young protestErs from a Nairobi university blocked a major highway in Kenya protesting against the government and demanding the resignation of President William Ruto.
Kenya has seen weeks of unrest in which protesters stormed into parliament on June 25 after a finance bill was passed that proposed tax increases. More than 30 people died in the protests, which have morphed into calls for the president to resign.
There are allegations regarding the killing of dozens of demonstrators,by the police, which has been fueling the protests.
Kenya’s police chief Japhet Koome has resigned on the same day five bodies wrapped in sacks were found in a quarry near an informal settlement and after weeks of deadly protests in which more than 30 people were killed.
President Ruto on Friday announced that he had received the resignation of inspector General Koome, and that his deputy Douglas Kanja would be acting.
Ruto had announced on Thursday that he has dismissed almost all of his Cabinet ministers and promised to form a new government that will be lean and efficient.
"Ruto dissolving the cabinet does not mean anything", a young protester from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology said, "There is nothing we can do with him. We want new faces. We want new people. We want change and the change begins here and now."
"Mr. William Ruto you have failed the people, you have failed the masses, and all these things are a clear pointer and indication that you need to vacate that office", said Fred Jiro, a rapid Response officer at Arc Africa, a grass roots human rights group.
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