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Razor wire along Parliament road during the Gen anniversary protests in Nairobi, on June 25, 2025. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]
The Nairobi County Woman Representative Esther Passaris has tabled a path-breaking Bill that seeks to entrench political freedoms in our country by opening special spaces for picketing and protests. Those seeking to protest about bad roads in their neighbourhoods, for instance, will have no right to barricade the road and wave twigs. They would have to travel to designated protest zones within the green city in the sun.
The idea is simple, even though some disrespectful men are claiming that the Bill is too sophisticated to have been developed by beautiful Passaris.
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