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Your death will not be in vain, family of man shot dead in tax protests says

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Activists, friends and family of the late Rex Kanyike at Nairobi City Mortuary waiting for post-mortem on June 21, 2024. [Robert Tomno, Standard]

The drumbeats of Thursday's anti-Finance Bill protests in Nairobi died down, so did the life of a young protestor.

Twenty-nine-year-old Rex Kanyike Masai was silenced by a bullet, his only mistake, protesting against the government's increased taxes.

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