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After rejection of Finance Bill, youths must now list as voters

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Soldiers from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are received with jubilation by demonstrators along Moi Avenue during protests against Finance Bill 2024 in Nairobi on June 27, 2024. [AFP]

We painfully and sorrowfully mourn the innocent lives of protesters, Generation Z at the hands of security personnel, may their souls rest in peace, amen. May all those injured recover fully and quickly. Those arrested for protesting or abducted must be released unconditionally.

Our security officers must defend and protect not to harass and carry extrajudicial killings as recently witnessed. They must be prosecuted and punished for targeting unarmed civilians exercising their constitutional rights, to end impunity and ensure accountability.

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