Gen Z: Is it a new era of protests in Kenya? BBC Africa
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- Young Kenyans have taken to social media to organise and lead protests against a proposed finance bill from the government. This bill, which introduces new taxes on essential items and services like sanitary pads, mobile phones, and computers, has sparked outrage in the country, especially with young Kenyans. However, is this a new era for activism in Kenya or just a passing moment in time?
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It was not only Nairobi but all major towns in Kenya.
It WAS and WILL BE all over the country until our mission is attained.
Absolutely. Every year since 2000 over a third of our taxes are stolen each year. They buy, houses, cars and take their children to international schools with our money. No more!@@nickmuthomi5886
Including his major strongholds like Eldoret. He lives for the PR in the international community. He is finally being exposed
"People go hungry because taxes eat their food.
Therefore, the people go hungry.
People are hard to manage because they are oppressed.
Therefore, they are hard to manage.
People laugh at death because their lives are cheapened
With the weight of expectation.
This is why they laugh at death.
Who could value life
When food is scarce, and freedom repressed?"
Tao te ching 75
U can imagine mpuga can be given 500and it just goes like that Ugandans please let's wake up please
we are rooting for you Kenya..... Love from Nigeria!
Young people we're woke only thing we fear in marriage 😂
Nigeria own is overdue may God wakeup spirit of freedom. from political corruption and chronic.
💪🔥💪💪💪💪💪from GHANA, GHANAIAN are behind you from all over de WORLD
Nigeria should wake up too an oil Rich country yet inflation is soooo high
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@@adigunzaccheaus4905
Don’t forget the volunteer medics who were stationed in different parts of the city to offer first aid with crowdfunded medical supplies. I’m so proud of Kenyans.
The churches didn’t open their doors but the mosques opened their doors.
Thank you
Its a high time for united Kenya minus all politicians who have served during Uhuruto regimes.
I'll add the lawyers who have been working tirelessly to release wrongfully imprisoned protestors; the citizens/restaurants who provided water for the teargassed protestors, and the tech community who provided a chatgpt chatbot to explain the finance bill to anyone who has questions.
@@LeeKnowsCatss Congratulations
It is time for people of Africa to get rid of corrupt politicians who make decisions for their own pockets
Watch the space
yah and dats wat we are upto its a new era
We in the United States has a lot of corrupt politicians as well. My country is actually a hot mess.
Corruption is everywhere including western nations. And your countries should stop interfering with African nations bc the protests are as a result of the demonic IMF trying to destroy Africa
@@gabbycarter965yes but at least the US has low unemployment levels and functional service delivery
"You cannot blame the youth. You cannot fool the youth."
Peter Touch
The World will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch without doing anything.
I love this👊🤝
So who do you want to be. You want to coward you cape and be a trump supporter. Or be what the world wants us to be, be what we are inspired to be and man up and be captain america ?!?! If your a U.S. citizen, the best you can do is vote.
@@anthonygordon9483 Trump 2024
@@dennykeaton9701 I got to hand it to trump. Ive never seen a front runner president that got booed in front of his own crowd. I can die a happy man
the world have already destroyed by usa. usa had everything to make the world to beautiful place
Kenyan Youth have made history and will continue doing so...proudly a Kenyan Gen Z✊
you guys wont be taxed for loving the things you love, love from a UK gen Z❤
What took so long you guys are 100 years behind the rest of the world? My brother’s ex wife who is Kenyan sent him a photo of her with a black eye. She said a police officer punched her in the face in Mombasa for protesting . Africans should have been protesting 50 years ago .
Nothing will change
Since our first Gold Medal in the Olympic games. Our best envoys. When young Kenyans go out competing at the global events they do it for the flag. Now they are aksing qns and taking the baby steps into influencing a society of hope and unwavering resilience 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
Tax just provided a trigger to a situation that has/will continue to mdogo mdogo sustain into hopefully a society that cares. Constitution is ok. Practices by individuals and groups of individuals ndio shida.
It would be good to let the world know our efforts for justice cost the life of a mother of children, a justice practitioner, and a Kenyan.
RIP Hakimu
I love Kenyan accent and their eloquence. Not to mention their sharp mind
Proud of Kenyan. God bless you all. Tanzania 🇹🇿
Kenyans
Thanks neighbour❤
Kenyans* Love from Tanzania
Love from Congo... so proud of Kenyans for standing up for what is right.
Kenyan youths are highly educated 🥲
AF only thing we fear is marriage 😂
@@kougin13aller42 we also fear Ruto😂
Onlike Nigerians. We're suffering here 😢
South Africa 🇿🇦 stands with the youth of Kenya 🇰🇪. We cannot have Neighboring countries giving ideas to our greedy government
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Fix your electricity lmfao
Electricity...We don't have load shedding anymore ...We have foreigners problem now ...GNU all the way ✊
Done
African Youths we need to fight for our rights. Kudos to Gen Z for leading the way! 🎉🎉❤❤
you right
Its not just younger generation. Its the middle class
No! EVERYBODY WAS THERE!!! Including children of the mps…I knew one personally and she was there with us. And we were all young youths. Stop spreading fake propaganda here if you were not there…
No, no it is not
As youths we are tired of being manipulated, the tax collector Must Go
Remember the 1000 Mention The Volunteer medics who helped
kudos to the medics
Don't forget the many Lawyers who gave free services to arrested demonstrators, too.
Gen Z should vie for parliamentary seats in 2027.That's the only way to defeat Zakayo.Even if he rigs elections they can still impeach him and they can reject such bills.
Gen Z for parliament in 2027.
Na si tafadhali
oh happy day!!! Yes they should!! And our part is to MAKE SURE we don't fall for the campaign money being poured out. Take the money from the Mpigs but still vote them OUT!
You are strategic .....keep it up!
@@profAKILI you are welcome.We are the only ones who can save ourselves
And we should form our own political party,we take over the whole country from the parliament,senate, county assembly all the way to the state house
@@kelvinmicheni7319 exactly!
I'm a proud kenyan in Diaspora thank you our Gen Z for waking up on our behalf our generation was asleep and you have our backs 100+ percent,God bless u,God bless kenya
President Ruto works for American government 🌝
lmao, trust me, as black american, The U.S. has sadl showed no interest in africa.Obama has been the only president to work with african youth and african governments the most but his 8 years was never enough. This is proof, the U.S. africa relationship has been thin simply because majority of african countries can not maintain a stable government. If there is anything you should be worried about, you should be paying attention to the chinese government buying up half of africa just to mine up their resources.
He has a SS
And that’s why he’s committing genoci** against his Haiti brothers 😭😭
And this is not going to end up well,the Western Countries are something else
@@sylviahkinyangi9892 yeah we doomed
Feeling so proud of Kenya and this amazing progress! Keep fighting mtoto!
In the new budget he somehow sneaked in billions for his house and car renovations, and about a billion to his wife's office, the height of immorality is unreal.
Recalling MPIGS? Well now, I hadn't heard that one. What a delightful prospect!!!
Where is the tax money?? Hold them accountable.
RUTO MUST GO!!!!!!
RUTO MUST GO!!!!!!!
RUTO MUST GO!!!!!!!
RUTO MUST MUST MUST GO!!!!!!
RUTO MUST GO!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't blame Ruto for your filthy and savage life
RUTO MUST GO!!!!
@@Jackson-im5yq lmaooo don't make me laugh😂😂 savage?😂😂 Filthy??😂😂 Honey the only problem in my life is anxiety over my looming exams, lollll. I am protesting because my life will be difficult if I enter the job market with him in power. Otherwise, I'm doing fine💅, much to your dismay. Sorry for thinking your condition is mutual.❤️🩹 Meanwhile, I'm doing everything I can not to be as miserable and bitter as you are in your position, all while still obsequiously genuflecting to your oppressor and shamefully attacking those who dare to call out his profligacy and rightfully stand for justice. 🤡 Joke's on you in every shape and form. Worst part is, you're too sycophantic to even realise it. 🤡💀💀
@@Jackson-im5yqretard
Gen z in all of africa MUST stand against their corrupt governments, how long will the youth migrate to europe and america to suffer there, no stand up for our corrupt governments, kenya is leading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After this protest we are going for the us embassy in kenya they have to refund our visa fee
Thats a useless quest. Instead of running topple the western puppet governments that have operated since the hoax independence and you'll industries and economic activities picking up. We've been suppressed by puppet regimes
I’m not sure you are dense or willfully obtuse . The US embassy is American soil: if it is attacked they will respond with force . I think you gullible Kenyans need to stick to protesting your incompetent leaders . Attacking an embassy would create an international firestorm that Kenya can’t handle or afford .
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wtf bro
why on earth would you increase tax on cancer medication? that's weird. If you need increased taxes to combat a budget deficit I get that, but from all the things you can tax, why medication???
Tax is tax and you must pay,in ruto's voice😂😂😂😂
to raise even more money by exploiting vulnerable sick people, this is just sad... i mean they have no other choice but to fight for their health no matter the cost and the government is taking advantage of them
He also wants to make our land leasehold instead of freehold so the sentiment was that he wants to make our lives so hard that foreigners can take our land .
@@MK-bf1reand idk why people aren't as triggered about this. He literally wants to own the whole of Kenya
This is not about paying taxes but the accountability.
As a thoroughly disappointed Gen Y than ran the second liberation leg of the Kenyan Race. the Gen Z are running a superb anchor leg! First class! There is hope for Kenya! Beautiful!
The devil that wears Kaunda suit.
RUTO MUST GO!
Wolf in sheep skin and Jezebel the wife😢.
And a rolex watch😅😅😅
Until it's election time then everyone votes their tribe😂 especially the two tribes responsible for poverty and backward progress in Kenya.
Muthomi are you sure?
@@ivandj-van5742on behalf of muthomi, yes
Taxes on the right, corruption on the left, honestly we're tired
Millennials and the generations that preceded them have fundamentally failed us. Their obsession with decorum and maintaining appearances has led to a culture of complacency and inaction. In stark contrast, Gen Z is a generation unshackled by the pretenses of the past. WE ruthlessly expose hypocrisy and refuse to entertain the deceit and systemic failures that have plagued OUR society. Gen Z’s raw and unapologetic approach is a radical departure from the status quo, heralding a new era of accountability and unvarnished truth. OUR defiance is not just a rebellion; it is a necessary revolution against the entrenched norms that have perpetuated injustice and mediocrity.
VIVA KENYA! GOTHA, GOTHA TENA!
With all due respect, the fact that you think Millennials are part of the problem shows how horribly misguided you are.
You're talking about inaction but fail to discuss the necessary action that needs to happen. The key has and will always be for a nation to produce goods and services that it can sell both locally and internationally. That has, is, and will forever be the key to a thriving 'uchumi.' That's how you have a nation that has a tax system that works for even the brokest of the broke. I cannot stress this enough; if you cannot understand why production is the necessary action, you will never understand why the overwhelming majority of Africa -- including all of the island nations -- are firmly in third-world status.
Look at the products in the video. Tecno stores, iPhones, wireless mics (probably DJI/Rode/Shure/Sennheiser/AKG), Nike shoes, Converse shoes (part of Nike), Canon cameras, Toyota cars, Chinese speakerphones, German riot guns, the list goes on. Look at what company this video was recorded for. Look at what app/site is hosting the video.
Nothing that was mentioned is made in Kenya or owned by any company in Kenya. That is the fundamental problem that will persist until people are ready to confront it and eliminate it through hard work and innovation.
TL;DR: Production is key. You solve the tax problem by producing goods and services and not blaming groups of people. Good luck!
We are joining you. Everyone has watched. You're not alone.
Am a very proud mama to this generation ❤
You’re indeed Heroes of our country our sons and daughters
I just feel like hugging each one of you that I see walking down the streets ❤❤❤
Millineals are also fighting
Millennials are in this, Gen z is a majority, but millennials are also in the fight.
Kenya's inflation is running very very very high - Orwellians ruling from Parliament don't know that
To be honest inflation is very low we got one of the lowest inflation in the continent....... a good business environment is what we are fighting for
@@AmazingMania Stop lying you fool
Ruto goes to America, and the policies become more strange. If you know, you know
All the policies he has taken to parliament non is for Kenyans but his foreign masters
The American puppet...if you know you know😢
@@Karolina-xr5wt his pockets of money must be full,if you know you know
Proudly Kenyan for the first time in a long time
#RejectFinanceBill2024
" We are doing it scared, we are doing it tired, but we are doing it regardless." Powerful
We show up for protests and not elections. Let this be a lesson to all of us.
Yes. Accountability is the primary objective.
NO TAXATION WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY. should be the motto.
Just like the Boston tea party where it was NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
First time hearing someone descrived as a food influencer.
Freedom is coming. These Gen Z's will fix Kenya 🇰🇪 politics and governance. Those ignoring this revolution will regret.
For the first time, I am proud being Kenyan. Being a Millennium I strongly feel that change will come within my lifetime.
Kuddo to the youth of Kenya, stand up for your rights and future 🇿🇦✌️
It is only in Kenya where taxes have taxes!
I guess you haven't been to Jamaica before 😂😅
@@teawrld5976According to this year's budget reading, we need not get an increase in taxes.
@@teawrld5976According to this year's budget reading, we need not get an increase in taxes.
Go check Rwanda
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with them in spirit and mind but please please people, these youths appear to be mostly young educated but unemployed(sad), if it were the youths from less advantaged background, they would never be treated the same way as the poor who always know they will be SHOT at point blank range.....the dirt poor(the majority) and their offspring have no rights in kenya
No . The difference is coz of education n enlightenment they know their rights NOT TO CARRY STONES so the received equally treatment
Bro someone died yesterday
Finally Kenyans will learn to vote on issues. Many of these same people were celebrating William Ruto's election in 2022 even though they were warned by the side that lost. Now they're saying they'll make Ruto a one-term president.People get the government they deserve.
The person you claim purportedly warned us was the worst criminal cos he is one caused all this mess.Uhur kenyatta was really idiot of all craps
Exactly. Though you should hear what Gen Z is saying about the next president and the logic they present to pick him or her -- not very encouraging. Kenyans can't seem to think straight in that regard. The simple idea of picking someone who has a clean track record who is not a thief or a murderous bastard seems lost on Kenyans. Pick the first conman who tells them what they want to hear. Past 15 years Kenyans have defiantly and KNOWINGLY picked two people one after the next both tried and tested murderers and thieves that were indicted by the ICC and picked as president on the _most shallow level of logic_ I've seen in any country and I've lived in three countries through several election cycles. Crazy
The side that lost wasn't any better,it's a game of musical chairs same leaders keep changing sides to remain in power
@@peterwakaba4605 But you can't deny the side that lost warned us about this exact issue as well as Ruto's dictatorial and thieving tendencies. They can happily say "I told you so".
A lot of Gen Zs didn't vote last election. That's why Ruto won. This time we know better.
People Power!!!!
That Isaac Mwaura it's shocking that those taxes are not a point to cause us to demonstrate according to Me Isaac. It shows how Ruto has stuffed him with money amesahau like ametoka. He has fogotten how it feels to lack and get out to demonstrate😢😢😢 painful. Lord have mercy
I wonder why this greedy politicians can't do the right thing, then ask for more corporation from their citizens. They'll rather go opposite.
Sending Love ❤️ 😍 to our Kenyans brothers and sisters from Nigeria 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
This may be an indicator for the continent.
We are REJECTING FINANCE BILL 2024 we do not want it amended we want it scrapped .
Kenyan citizens know how to get it done. I hope one day Kenya can become a stable country and give a chance to its youth
African politicians come to the office to service themselves and their families and not to serve the ordinary people. The question is, if the government of the day does not serve me, why should I obey the law?
Happy to be a mom to two Gen Z for teaching all leaders that the public is your employer not slaves
It smells like a revolution
Honey it is
# GEN Z KENYA 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
MANY YOUTHS ARE GRADUATES AND JOBLESS WE'RE SUFFERING WE'RE GOING THROUGH DEPRESSION
🇰🇪 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 🇰🇪
How sad?! Peace to Kenya !❤ from 🇪🇹
We support our youths for representing us all ,all the way from the UK.❤
NO !!!
Commencement of Decorruption....... DeDollarisation ...DeColonisation ...Decoupling
Time for wanainchi to get on the Front Foot 🤔
Governments all over the world are not serving the people.. Kenyan demonstrations are an inspiration. We need to support our young people & not create systems in the world that use them as commodities to be abused by corporations and pillaged by governments.
Kenyan have something the world needs to emulate way go gen z🇰🇪🇰🇪
The journalist's voice is soothing
I’m so proud of GenZ . Way to go . Ruto has failed Kenyans !!!!😢
We're Kenya 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 and this means more.
This wouldn't work in countries like the US. The difference in strength between the government and the citizens is way too large
Unity is strength go go youths of Kenyan..
Freedom of Expressions, Freedom of Speech, Freedom, Civil Rights, and Equility for All African People's. Men, Women, and Children. Enough is Enough of Killings, Rapes, and Power Abuses.. African People's United, Now!
This protest is a history
as a child of second liberation in 1990s, where youths were even shot dead while protesting for a better kenya , i am now hopeful that fire is still there..and the current generation more informed. hawa ni moto...
Hongera wakenya,hongera mayuth
As a kenyan Ruto is the real definition of the devil himself!😩😩😩
Kwanza that speech he gave yesterday
100% we do see where the tax goes and who it goes to
It goes to the people in government!!! Their houses get bigger and so is the stomach…
African youths are braver than their Indian counterparts 😐
I'm happy for this fearless youths💪
be safe everyone and keep fighting for your rights❤❤
Ok kids lets have a balll .
Pads???? These mfs are increasing taxes on pads yet condoms are free??😢
It's not too early to say,it's the right time to say it.A new Era 🇰🇪
Let' us speak..it is now!!!
They are knowledgeable well informed well educated and they know their rights
Some videos are old BBC
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND 😊
Come to think about it, it's not about the finance Bill, it's about the wastage, the lies, the corruption. This government cannot account for any cent taxpayers pay, all we see is few individuals living large at our expense.
What district is this? I'm visiting Kenya next month
Nairobi
@@rehemakendi8769 which part
@@dylan-tl2yx Central Nairobi, Nairobi being the capital city of Kenya. I will advise to plan accordingly because this time the gen z protesters are jobless and have the time on their hands to push their agenda forward, they’ve got to be heard
@@Barry_Blaak Asante sana.. justified or not. I've seen these "protests" all over the world these last few years. They are NEVER peaceful. If you like chips eggs or chapati then stay far away. If you are sick of living then go "protest" and find what you're looking for. I'm praying for the world 🙏🏼
@@dylan-tl2yxbut the good thing this time is that they are very peaceful no shops broken no stones thrown unless the police start to throw tear gas
Is this today? I thought there were no protests today
Sending my love and support for brave people of Kenya! ❤
The word is proposed, they have proposed to make amendments they have not actually taken the controversial issues out...
The luckiest country is kenya
The country of God.
You can call it new jerusalem
Watching from Malaysia 🇲🇾🇵🇰
It's meant don't travel to Kenya in this situation actually I have been to Kenya once 2020.
In fact, Kenya has been the king of bribery since its inception.
Everywhere in this countries knows how to manipulate foreigners. They overcharge everything even in your country it's the same
The government should experiment with tax cuts just like how businesses experiment with discounts. Some discounts are so spectacularly successful that gross profit goes through the roof. The entrepreneur now has a very good problem (order fulfillment) that keeps him awake at night.
This won't sustain their (politicians) greedy pockets, they're looking at them first
Tax cuts equal budget cuts. Not a good thing most times. Even government austerity is not an economic practice. Government is the biggest spender and consumer of goods as it is the biggest single employer. Where do you think the budgetary cuts will be implemented? All those feel good social protections will be the first to go
Decisions being made on your behalf is exactly what a Representative Democracy looks like. We voted them in, they promised austerity, this is what it looks like.
Proud of Kenyans.
Finally the psuedo Kenyan Middle class is waking up to the avidity of Kenyan politicians, most of whom inherit difficult issues left by the previous regime.
This is not about class..... everyone is coming out, highclass, Middle class and lower class. Thing in common? Education
It all started with P.Ruto meeting That old man using A chartered Flight ✈️✈️✈️✈️.
The Mission wasn't blessed
Always listen even if it's a whisper
We have no government in KENYA
It's all kicking off
Sisi wazee huyu jamaa ametukalia ngumu akituchukulia wajinga that we can't understand what is financial bill but am a happy person our children are fronting grievances for us,we need to support them kwa Hali na mali
Ruto must go. I love kenya all my relativ lives there n we have investment there. Kenyan deserv better
Kenyan 🇰🇪 The people of have the right to protests against the economic downturn because it shows the economic disapproval of the country struggling with the problems of high cost of living.
Fred Matiangi please do the honour (vie for presidency) for liberation of Kenya.
Kenya will show other Africans to avoid Politics corruption Africans it's now or Never Kenya we Choose Now