NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president said Wednesday he won't sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to...
NAIROBI , Kenya — Kenya 's president said Wednesday he won't sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands ofHe now says the proposed bill caused “widespread dissatisfaction” and that he has listened and “conceded.” It's a major setback for Ruto, who came to power vowing to help Kenya ns cope with rising costs but has seen much of the country — led by its youth — unite in opposition to his latest attempted reforms.
Kenya has seen protests in the past, but activists and others warned the stakes were now more dangerous — Ruto on Tuesday vowed to quash unrest “at whatever cost," even as more protests were called at the State House on Thursday.“We are dealing with a new phenomenon and a group of people that is not predictable,” said Herman Manyora, an analyst and professor at the University of Nairobi. “We don’t know whether these people will fear the army.
Later Wednesday, the High Court, acting on a challenge from Kenyan lawyers, ordered the military be pulled back from the streets. It was not immediately clear if the government would do so. The bill was not as important as people’s lives, said one Nairobi businessman, Gideon Hamisi. "Many young people lost their lives yesterday. I am a young man, and I feel deeply pained by what transpired.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had been expected to speak with Ruto on Wednesday about the Haiti deployment, a call planned prior to Tuesday’s violence.Pundits and politicians aren’t the only ones offering their hot takes on how Thursday’s CNN event will go.
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