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Nairobi on lockdown: A journalist's tense journey through police barricades during Saba Saba

Protesters during Saba Saba protest in Kitengela on July 7th 2025 [Collins Oduor/Standard]

Whenever I leave my humble abode in Roysambu, I spend only 30 minutes getting to Nairobi’s Central Business District. That was not the case on Monday.

When the government flexed its muscle, revealing a monopoly on violence which it unleashed against mwananchi, I needed more than an hour.

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