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Gen-z youths in Kitengela in a protest to mark one year since their colleagues were killed as they protested finance bill 2024. Most businesses were looted and burnt. [Jenipher Wachie/Standard]
There are shouts and ballads on the streets, "Ruto must go" and "Kasongo must go." But go how, or where? In reality, there are only three ways this can happen: Through impeachment by Parliament, incapacitation or death in office, or at the ballot in 2027. There is no other way. Even if you were to demonstrate for a million years and burn down the entire country, President William Ruto will not leave power unconstitutionally. The Constitution protects his presidency just as it protects your right to protest his excesses.
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