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Inside Ruto's intricate KDF plan to restore order, handle protests

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KDF Officers in Nairobi CBD for Gen Z anti-finance Bill protest. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Days after the High Court affirmed the deployment of the military to quell protests across the country, The Standard can now reveal how the deployment strategy looked like.

President William Ruto, on Tuesday last week, deployed two companies of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers and positioning two additional military companies on standby at Kahawa Barracks to handle the wave of protests.

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