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.