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Protests by young generation are inspired by dashed hopes

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

To say that the Finance Bill 2024 is the cause of the so called Gen Z protests, is akin to saying that Gavrilo Princip and his organisation, the Black Hand, simply caused what eventually is recorded in history as the World War 1 of 1914 to 1918.

The Finance Bill was a trigger of simmering public anger and years of citizens disaffection with the running of our public affairs.

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