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Wapelekwe military prison na Kenya isonge mbele

Man that suxx, I thought Kenya was one of the best places in Africa to live! I hope it will get resolved soon.

@liepsan it is a very nice place, but the current government has been looting non-stop. To give you context, Ruto was an ICC suspect whose case was dropped due to witness disappearance. When he got into power, he appointed persons who had active criminal charges such as murder, rape, corruption etc (dropped their cases), the rest are their mistresses while others have forged academic documents. The govts has been on a looting spree, allocating themselves govt properties and contracts while overtaking us and taking more loans (he has borrowed more than all presidents combined in 2 years). On the other hand, he had curated a very different image in the international arena. He has hijacked parliament, he bribed them so all bills pass whether we like it or not. These has angered Kenyans. The protests have been largely peaceful until the police started killing Kenyans. It is also rumoured that the government deployed goons to disrupt peaceful protests. Either way he has to go

​@@liepsanUnfortunately, we have a leader that is going to destroy everything we have worked hard to build. 2027 he is out.

not 2027, Thursday kwani you still have room to wait until 2027​@@neilnelson7603

They will not believe

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Unatuaibisha. It's believe.

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Who is Edith?

​@@believer2010ful used to work for Kenya TV Network

If you had watched the video you would see a nation upset with it's government. Who pray tell then sent the troops to Haiti? A smart person would say the government and a smarter person would see that it was not the will of the people as obviously the will of the people is not respected by this government.

Conflating issues here. . These is a right to protest as enshrined in Kenyan constitution, a protest about FINANCE BILL. a demonstration that the govenment is not listening to the people ,Young Kenyans participating in a thriving healthy functioning democracy . People are not arming themselves or harming fellow citizen ... BuT Haiti there is no functioning govt , no bills, no judiciary , no procedures, NO ELECTED LEADERS, no functioning parliament ,just war lords .

Who should stop the madnes? We or Ruto?

@@mimon5569 I hope that both parties try to find a political solution and remove any and all violence.

Yeah. You guys are a bit worse though. We can be fine if we live within our means. However, they need to show "development" hence the taxes...

Katiba has no issues… the government is wasteful… why have millions for the office of First Lady, Second Lady, Wife of Prime Ministers, allowance for salaried MPs, a-lot for renovations to the Deputy President, A lot money for bribing Mps to vote, A lot of money for the President which is un accounted for, un necessary Presidential advisers, un necessary trips of the President…….and the list is long. Wake up!

The president sent them there, against the Kenyans wishes

Kenya has one hundred thousand police officers

I think you have a problem with your mind. we have more police .

They sent less than 1% of their police force.

0.0000001%

Absolutely not we are here because of poor leadership

@user-my5ux2fx1p You are here because of DEBT Kenyan leaders got into to develop Kenyan infrastructure. This means DOLLARS from the IMF, China, and other creditors. Intra-Africa trade would have made Kenya's dependence on the dollar less. For example, the steel needed for Kenya's infrastructure development is paid for in dollars when it could be paid in Nairas if Nigeria had developed its steel industry. The new Dangote refinery should lessen Africa's dependence on the dollar if it is not sabotaged. SELAH.

We don't even have resources we raise our revenue through business, tourism, agriculture and manufacturing. That's why taxation is a big topic to us

​@@harmoniousfrenchman8775listen carefully we are here because of taxation. We want accountability not overtaxation. Kenya is not in debt distress btw. All infrastructure are built on Public Private Partnership whereby the project pays based on the revenue it generates. So the government doesn't pay directly which is very healthy.....our consern here is accountability and we made a statement

@AmazingMania Kenya's debt to GDP ratio is 68%. Kenya is definitely in debt distress, which is the main reason for this insane tax legislation. Kenya was put in a debt trap.

Blame it on Haiti

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Kenya has 100 thousand police officers. But your right we might need them back . ruto must go.

The know it all president, has to be told to listen to the people

Peace keeper's are on their way from Haiti, 😅

​@@boujeebiz9430Are they not his ?

Oh no ? Kenya same happen with south africa ? Troublesome ? Kenya before very peaceful 😅😅😅

Usa planned it

Trust me. No one outside those benefiting from the fund from the US, which is basically the inner circle of the government, supports the sending of Kenyan troops to Haiti.

We haven't even touched Haiti... That one the world is fighting for us and unfortunately it is the young recruits who are abt to die for a war they don't know abt

@rorytribbet6424 ummhmm. not entirely unexpected tbh...

You noticed that too?

How do you supply needs to poor people without taxes?

​@@squalie9I wish you knew how our politicians steal money from state budgets. We will only see 40% of that tax money.

You tax, politicians, foreign companies who employ expats CEO/CFO and the Rich@squalie9

@@squalie9 The leaders don't seem to lead poor people. They spend heavily and openly. That has created jitters.

@@AI-RecapTv so poor people have a habit of voting for the absolute worse leaders?

C'est vrais

Love from kenya our Angolan brothers the situation in our country is getting messy politicians are swimming in luxury while we young people are languishing in poverty

They did this in Zimbabwe too when people protested fuel and tax hikes. Its the dictatorial African way. 😂

On Top of that, they shamelessly take bribe money from the executive to pass Finance Bills that have turned citizens to paupers🤔

Our politicians are too greedy

@@kougin13aller just pay the taxes. Did you protest the roads,, railway, power plants you enjoy now brought about by loans? I don't think so.

​@@pietrojenkins6901 I don't like various aspects of politics but love our nation as a whole and I will tell you for a fact that people over the years have been speaking against the loans since most of the loans have gone into some politician's pockets and some of the roads and said power plants were just built for formalities to show that the loan did something, but these power plants and roads are very few compared to what was promised, Kenya is an amazing nation but some few leaders have plundered much of it's wealth for themselves and now continuous raise in taxes is what's been happening to try pay off loans and facilitate some of the politician's lavish lifestyles. The current tax bill proposes even higher taxation on the ladies' pads and that's just one of the jaw dropping part, initially 100 shillings which is currently approximately $0.70 could at least get someone two meals but now $10 can't even help the ordinary citizen that much in a day's meal how much more for a family?

​@@pietrojenkins6901 imagine loosing 14% of your income to taxes and you haven't even paid for bills such as house rent, basic needs and fees for the siblings or kids in a family, you still have to eat, have medical checkups and get clothed. It's sad that the protests got out of hand the way they did and I feel sad about the loss of lives and brutal attacks. But these collected taxes have mostly shown a track record of being abused by some politicians.

Tiktok too..

they wont shut us down

its been done before it only made things worse

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The US purpet is not listening to our 😢😢😢😢😢

Go where?

Painfully ironic; his whole speech was an apt description of himself and his extortionist gang of politicians. Dude's a narcissist.

more like bail out banks and failed policies pushed by corrupt politicals

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Its a protest. Not a civil war. We haven't reached that level yet.

​@@neilnelson7603 the way it is heading can lead to civil war. Ruto must drop the finance bill to calm down the situation.

Ruto Must Go

​@@neilnelson7603Our enemy is the government

He didn't magically appear in State House. People voted for him. Now they're crying.

​@jacqdanieles if at all he was voted in then he should have just opened the server

@@eglynefuraha2479 "just opened the server"? What does that mean?

@@jacqdanielesThe current government rigged votes and refuse to give citizens server access because the elections were digitized.

​@@eglynefuraha2479 I like your question, you must be intelligent.

i noticed

​@@vervetech9395How do you think? You must not be a millennial or gen Z otherwise you'd know

@@vervetech9395 telekenesis and shii

​@@vervetech9395 are you familiar with the term VPN?? Hmm

@@vervetech9395 room temperature IQ mate

yes indeed

Wait until you hear those young ones protesting speak...its a kenyan accent

I agree. She speaks better than most Brits. It's a pleasure listening to her. The American sounds so muffled in comparison.

indeed

Kenyans are generally eloquent... Different accents but eloquent..

They think we're emerging from our caves 😂💔

It's the result of years of Africa being portrayed as a pre-historic basket case devoid of any form of development.

Ignorance.

@@josephngari1577 Exactly.

i assure you as a Kenyan their are more than 50% or 40% are literate especially since the population is mostly youth

Is that something new? That's been happening for decades. Yet the population continues to vote for these thieves.

No one in Kenya wants our police in Haiti. They should bring them home

This is wrong that is rubbish we can't support

Soldiers?

You know you’re pressed when you try to pass this off as normal lol it ain’t getting better

​@@Meteyard97whose trying to pass off as normal. Kenyans protesting their government is something that connects them with all other places with a desire to see their government change and have had protests, such as, France and the USA. Therefore, there's even a shared kinship there 😐

The USA was attacked by pro russian maga trumpers. All of which have been tried and convicted, many are in prison. There are no violent protests going on. Pro Palestinian groups protested, but have been peaceful.

USA protests were politically motivated.It's about democrats and republicans. Kenyan one is about survival of a whole nation.It's not divided by politics, religion,race or tribe.

Now add THEFT ( CORRUPTION).

The population and the economy are not growing at the same rate. But the corrupt politicians want to keep playing with our tax money creating unconditional offices like 'The office of the spouse of the Prime Cabinet Secret'. It's as ridiculous as it sounds. So many sideshows instead of creating jobs and a conducive business environment.

The only prayers that'll work are a rejection of the finance bill in totality or the president relinquishing his authority as CIC.

govts aren't in charge, banks are

Just goes to show that we all have so much more in common; war is a political creation.

@@uchennaabosi7651 The world's currencies are all fiat, not a store of value. no savings, just debt and that debt must grow or the liberal monetary system collapses. Since the debt can not be paid, it is extinguished by creating more currency which destroy's the currency's value - and along with it, our savings. This is happening and has been in its final phase since 2008. Good people all over the world will be destroyed by this. The tragic events in Kenya (and elsewhere) are just the beginning.

I said the same thing to an Iranian in the UK just yesterday. I advised him to stop wasting his time complaining about politicians or governments. Yes, some countries may be well off economically than others but politicians are the same everywhere.

Our MPs don't care about us... This is a problem that has been brewing over the years but our leaders have been too ignorant to listen to the people.

The $laveholder is bankrupt - or not?

Come on dude. Large economies are compared with other large economies. Kenya should be compared to healthy economies who have a lower GDP number.

What?

That's not the issue.....Kenya can pay whatever debts....but the new discovery is that those thugs have been misusing money in the name of paying debts ......all we wanted was accountability not more taxes

You created 47 counties based on the number of US states? 😂

@@jacqdanielesyes

​@@modenasayi no. The number of counties was actually meant to be less. 47 was just based on the number of districts at the time. Which is basically what the counties are.

It's because of the tax bill, since e.g. tax bread, reduce exemptions for lowest income earners, forced to pay at least 15% tax a year ("top-up tax"), etc.

You are misinformed truly...no one wanted to take us to Haiti but the Americans using our greedy-lying president for their agenda...the protest is more than over taxation.

This has nothing to do with Haiti 🤦

This is a "let them eat cake" regime. They are unconcerned about increasing taxes because it will not affect them. They are living in comfort with inflated government salaries, allowances, & perks. Would they take a drastic pay cut? Not a chance.