Several deaths and injuries were recorded on Tuesday as protests against proposed tax hikes, intended to reduce government debt, escalated.
Azimio La Umoja has threatened to go to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the recent killings witnessed during demonstrations against the Finance Bill 2024.
Wiper Party Leader, Kalonzo Musyoka spoke on Friday, June 28 after paying a visit to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) where patients are being attended to after sustaining injuries during the week-long protests.
“If I was Ruto, I would be deeply troubled. Our children, the Gen Z, peacefully came out to our streets in their hundreds of thousands to protest the socio-economic injustices perpetrated on all Kenyans by the KK dictatorship,” he stated on X.
“They have been murdered, brutally attacked, hijacked, and abducted.”
Several deaths and injuries were recorded on Tuesday as protests against proposed tax hikes, intended to reduce government debt, escalated.
The youth-led rallies, which began peacefully last week, quickly turned violent, resulting in chaotic scenes.
Protesters stormed the Senate and National Assembly buildings, setting fire to parts of the parliamentary precincts.
Kalonzo further vowed to document every case with the intention of suing those responsible for the deaths witnessed during the protests, at the ICC, terming their actions as crimes against humanity.
“We are going to document every case perhaps even revisit the International Criminal Court and this time, talk to them about atrocities committed against the Kenyan people,” he revealed.
Adding “by a regime which is heartless…which causes its own traitors to commit ‘treasonous’ acts. We are yet to be told who are the financiers of this organic youth movement in their thousands and they just want to claim their country back.”
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