Saba Saba 2025

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pop in said:
During the Kibaki and Uhuru regimes, we never even heard of saba saba
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Makes you wonder what’s so broken with this regime that people are once again rallying behind the clarion call of resistance. Saba Saba wasn’t just a date, it was a symbol of fighting repression. And yet, during Kibaki’s and Uhuru’s tenures, flawed as they were, we didn’t see this kind of mass yearning to revive that spirit. So why now? What is it about this administration that has pushed people back into the streets, back into the old songs of defiance? Maybe it’s not just nostalgia. Maybe it’s survival.
 
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Othello said:
Okay, if I may ask from the 25 of the pro-demos, what are they for? Agenda ni gani? Someone comb me. Who is the gaining and who's the loser. And when will it likely end?
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Kenya’s Gen Z‑led protests, initially sparked on 25 June 2024 by the Finance Bill’s punitive taxes, have since evolved into broader demands for accountability, economic relief, and an end to police brutality, especially after the death of blogger Albert Ojwang in custody in June 2025 . The government’s response, banning live protest coverage, erecting razor wire around State House and Parliament, deploying security forces with water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and even live rounds has repeatedly inflamed tensions, resulting in dozens more deaths and hundreds injured or arrested. These heavy‑handed tactics, combined with parliament’s tightening of anti‑protest laws (e.g. the Public Order (Amendment) Bill imposing criminal penalties for demonstrations near state buildings), effectively strip citizens of their constitutional right to peaceful assembly fueling rather than quelling unrest. While the Ruto administration insists it’s safeguarding order, its refusal to protect dissenters’ rights and its framing of protests as “treasonous” or coup attempts ensure that every crackdown only adds new fuel to the fire, keeping the protests alive, decentralized via social media, and likely to persist, especially as the 2027 election looms.

Short ofit? It's a textbook case of how refusing people’s legitimate right to protest becomes a self‑fulfilling prophecy of instability: the more the state suppresses expression, the more it ensures the protests continue.
 
Denis Young said:
These things only excite your side of the isle. Today looting and violence is synonymous with kikuyus. Kirinyaga, of all place, watu wanavunja supermarket.



I am seeing the same has also happened in Nyeri.

When this supposed rivalry between luos and kikuyus started it wasn't a tribal war that precipitated it.

It was two idiots at the top who were beefing with each other. Then decades down the line ati mkikuyu na mjaluo wanachukiana.

Rigathi is a callback to that nonsense and whether he has significant followers or not, he is the current vocal face of kikuyus. He has painted kikuyus as tribal and power hungry.
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Tommy Kwesule. said:
Kenya’s Gen Z‑led protests, initially sparked on 25 June 2024 by the Finance Bill’s punitive taxes, have since evolved into broader demands for accountability, economic relief, and an end to police brutality, especially after the death of blogger Albert Ojwang in custody in June 2025 . The government’s response, banning live protest coverage, erecting razor wire around State House and Parliament, deploying security forces with water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and even live rounds has repeatedly inflamed tensions, resulting in dozens more deaths and hundreds injured or arrested. These heavy‑handed tactics, combined with parliament’s tightening of anti‑protest laws (e.g. the Public Order (Amendment) Bill imposing criminal penalties for demonstrations near state buildings), effectively strip citizens of their constitutional right to peaceful assembly fueling rather than quelling unrest. While the Ruto administration insists it’s safeguarding order, its refusal to protect dissenters’ rights and its framing of protests as “treasonous” or coup attempts ensure that every crackdown only adds new fuel to the fire, keeping the protests alive, decentralized via social media, and likely to persist, especially as the 2027 election looms.

Short ofit? It's a textbook case of how refusing people’s legitimate right to protest becomes a self‑fulfilling prophecy of instability: the more the state suppresses expression, the more it ensures the protests continue.
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I am in Central, and all I have witnessed in the last 2 demos is just pure chaos in the name of demos. On 25th, the ''peaceful protestors' were throwing stones at my residence coz I was not joining them. They then went to county commissioner's office where they torched 3 cars. Later, they went to the local supermarket and bakery and looted it dry. One fool was shot dead and few were injured.
Today, they were targeting police station. Police shot one, and one police was badly injured after getting stoned. Had it been restraint, I swear police could have killed many here. The protestors then descended on the next supermarket/wholesale shop and looted it dry. Hii ni nchi gani? Where on earth is this allowed? And dont say anything like ati govt is sponsoring the looters. No. These are the ordinary guys protesting. They did the same to Kagio, Nyeri Naivas, Nanyuki etc. So how is this kind of chaos bringing justice to the departed? How will it help force Ruto out? How will they bring reforms? Who is the loser here? Have you people ever sat down and reflected?
 
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