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Ichung'wa is wrong on Gen Z demos, Tiktok views might matter in 2027

Citizens demonstrate along the streets of Nairobi's CBD to reject the Finance Bill. June 20, 2024. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

I watched with anger the clip of a Kenya Kwanza legislator dismissing anti-Finance Bill protests that rocked Nairobi and other parts of the country earlier this week as fake.

John Kiarie, a former Redykyulass comedian and current Member of National Assembly for Dagoretti South may have been forgiven for taking the joke too far when he claimed that photos of Gen Z protestors on Nairobi streets were graphically manipulated to create a false narrative. He would have been forgiven, but he was not joking.

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