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Azimio leader Raila Odinga and President William Ruto during the burial of former KNUT chairman Joseph Chirchir in Bureti, Kericho County, 2014. [DPPS]
"If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that is something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time".
When l encountered this quote by Noam Chomsky, it reminded me of the current situation in Kenya: The anti-government protests that Kenyans have been using to put pressure on the government to lower the cost of living and repeal the controversial Finance Act 2023.
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