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Protests aftermath: Businesses counting losses after looting, destruction

Destruction at RNG Plaza along Ronald Ngala Street in Nairobi. [James Wanzala,Standard]

On popular video app Tiktok, a business woman by the moniker Shiquo hi styles, informed her clients that she would be starting over as her business had been looted. The lady who sells imported clothes and shoes at RNG Plaza, has gained popularity for her marketing skills on the app, earning half a million followers. Prior to the protests, she was selling t-shirts labelled, 'How can you teargas a baddie?'

"Starting again from square one," she said.

A section of the burnt Uganda house along Kenyatta Avenue in Nairobi following Tuesday anti-finance Bill protests. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

A number of businesses along Mfangano street were also vandalised with Sunbeam razed.

A club linked to Kapseret Member of Parliament Oscar Sudi, Club Timba XO in Eldoret was also looted and property destroyed.

In Nyeri Town, Chieni supermarket, linked to Kieni MP Njoroge Wainaina was looted.