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Occupy State House plan still-born after youth change protests course

Anti-Finance Bill protesters carry their colleague who was shot by police. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

More protests were staged on the streets of Nairobi on Thursday, a day after President William Ruto bowed to pressure mounted by Gen Z over the contentious Finance Bill, 2024.

The protesters, unbowed, chanted "Ruto must go" as they changed course of protests, which had earlier targeted State House and engaged police in running battles for the better part of the day.

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