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Tear gas and pink coloured water cannons has been the main ploy police have been using to disperse Gen Z protesters across Kenya in the ongoing anti-government demos. Unbowed, Gen Zs have found a counter tactic, and it is working. They face the tear gas with knapsack sprayers like the ones used to spray farms with pesticides. This time round, the knapsack sprayers have been filled with water to spray off the effects of tear gas on the compatriots' faces.
They say necessity is the mother of invention. Some have even gone so far as to capture the canisters and hurl them back at the police, a risky yet defiant act of resistance. It's like a game of ping pong, or tennis with the police firing the teargas and then having it lobbed back by a protester.
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