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Activist Hussein Khalid during a protest over the alleged theft of Covid-19 funds. [David Njaaga, Standard]
The hashtag #ArrestCovid-19thieves was trending for the better part of Friday.
Kenyans on Twitter and other social media platforms went ballistic, over the arrest of several peaceful protesters, who were demonstrating, calling on the government to arrest those accused to have misappropriated public funds meant to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
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