Fire Everywhere! Protesters Set Parliament, Key Buildings & Businesses On Fire in #Kenya (Foreign)

 

     Kenya's federal parliament building
 

The turmoil in Kenya has reached alarming proportions! 

Demonstrators in the West African nation who have been protesting the passage of a contentious IMF-US Finance Bill for several days, have gone violent.

Hours earlier, irate mobs broke into the Parliament building and set many sections of it on fire. It is currently being engulfed in flames.

The Ugandan High Commission to Kenya, has also been torched. The aggrieved demonstrators set the building on for for they believe Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni is the person giving bad advice on the issue to Kenya's President Ruto.


Ugandan High Commission to Kenya, burning 

Similarly, the Kenya supreme courts has been overran by the protesters. It is yet unclear if it has got the same treatment. 

 


The protests were driven by the youth population called Gen Z, that is angered by the passage of the finance bill within two hours of its presentation in parliament , despite stiff opposition by the public.


For a few weeks, each member of parliament have been subjected to intense online harassments and ridicule, one after the other, in retaliation for backing such quick action on a contentious bill. Some homes and  businesses owned by lawmakers were also set on fire. These include: Molo MP Kuria Kimani's house; Oscar Sudi's Club Timba XO set on fire in Eldoret; Cecily Mbarire Governor's Office set on fire in Embu; Chieni Supermarket owned by Kieni MP Njoroge Wainaina torched Sakaja's office torched in Nairobi CBD
These are UDA/Kenya Kwanza fortresses


Five people have reportedly died.

 IMF loans are often adjudged to be detrimental to the growth of developing countries.


They fume that it has sinister motives, for it is said to be the fastest financial bill passage on a IMF loan in history, and that US's President Joe Biden, pushed for it's passage in a foreign country.

It is similar to the widespread Student Union stiff protests against a IMF loan in Nigeria in 1984. Total negative public opinion, and the students-led protests halted the plan by the Buhari-Idiagbon regime. 

Police were drafted in. But the situation remain tende. Hope President Ruto brings the situation under control fast before total breakdown of law and order sets in.



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