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Raila condemns police brutality following deadly protests

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Azimio Chief Raila Odinga. [FILE]

Azimio Chief Raila Odinga has called on the government to consider dialogue with Kenyans opposed to the Finance Bill 2024, over brutality against peaceful protestors agitating for a more sensitive tax regime.

Odinga said that the firing of live rounds of ammunition, detonation of teargas canisters, and deployment of water cannons on unarmed demonstrators was unwarranted and avoidable.

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