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Police give President Ruto deaf ear, arrest peaceful protestors

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Activist Boniface Mwangi being hurled into a police vehicle by plain cloth police officers along Koinange Street during a protest in memory of lives lost during the Gen-Z demonstrations on July 25, 2024. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard]

Contradiction seems to have caught the president's words a day after he ordered the release of all those arrested during the anti-government protests, mainly led by Gen Zs and Millennials.

In his statement at State House on Wednesday, President William Ruto ordered the immediate release of all protestors held captive and that their charges be dropped.

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