Judge directs on laws for demonstrators to pay for cleanup and losses

Residents of Makima Ward in Embu County protesting the refusal by Tana and Athi Rivers Development Authority to grant way-leave for laying of water pipes on its land on Tuesday. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]

A court has ruled that anyone demonstrating will now shoulder the costs for cleanup and destruction. 

In a verdict that now makes street protests somehow peaceful and orderly, those picketing will also be required to seek consent from persons adjacent to the demonstration zones in which organisers will be penalised in the event they go against the agreements.