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Ruto government groping in the dark as Gen Z step up protests

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President William Ruto addresses residents after inspecting the ongoing construction of Nakuru Bus park at Nakuru East Constituency in Nakuru City on July 15, 2024. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

President William Ruto's administration has continued to give different versions of who or what has triggered the nationwide anti-government protests by Generation Z.

While his deputy Rigathi Gachagua claimed, a few weeks ago that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) was trying to frame him and former President Uhuru Kenyatta as financiers of the anti-government protests, the President publicly accused the American-funded Ford Foundation of financing the ongoing anti-government protests.

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