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When State goes rogue: Kenyans protest against Executive excesses

A man being clobbered by ant-riot police during anti-Finance Bill protests along Parliament Road on June 25, 2024. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

As the nation picks up the pieces of two weeks that have seen the best and worst of its democracy, it is the harrowing images of lifeless Kenyans lying on the streets of Nairobi and of a dead child punctured by police bullets that will linger.

Those, and images of plainclothes police officers, masked and roaming in unmarked vehicles, unapologetically shooting live bullets and tear gas directly at people, including medical personnel and journalists.

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