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How keyboard whiners turned into courageous street warriors

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Demonstrators match along the streets of Nakuru City in protest against the controversial Finance Bill 2024 on June 20,2024. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The tax revolt has gone countrywide and once again, young, fearless, stylish and agile protesters came out to raise their voices against the contentious Finance Bill 2024, the best way they know how.

It was a departure from the past. There was no stone-throwing and looting; just hundreds of young people, otherwise referred to as Generation Z, running on their own steam, armed only with technology and youthful energy, to drive their point home.

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