{"id":15508,"date":"2024-07-02T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15508"},"modified":"2024-07-02T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:08:00","slug":"police-disperse-protestors-in-nairobi-amid-nationwide-demonstrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=15508","title":{"rendered":"Police Disperse Protestors in Nairobi Amid Nationwide Demonstrations."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01000000-0a00-0242-635e-08dc96caea4e_w408_r1.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01000000-0a00-0242-635e-08dc96caea4e_w408_r1.avif 408w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01000000-0a00-0242-635e-08dc96caea4e_w408_r1-300x169.avif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday morning, July 2, police lobbed teargas to disperse a group of protestors who had gathered on Moi Avenue in Nairobi. The protests were in response to President William Ruto&#8217;s remarks about recent anti-tax demonstrations and broader grievances over the high cost of living, corruption, unemployment, and substantial wage bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A heavy police presence was observed in the city, with anti-riot officers patrolling and securing crucial government buildings. Most businesses in the Central Business District (CBD) remained closed due to fears of looting and destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Migori and Makueni Counties, demonstrations were gradually escalating, with protestors lighting bonfires on the roads. Youth in Wote town, Makueni County, were seen lighting bonfires as part of the protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mombasa, a large number of youth took to the streets, chanting songs and occupying the roads as part of the nationwide protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, July 2, police lobbed teargas to disperse a group of protestors who had gathered on Moi Avenue in Nairobi. The protests were in response to President William Ruto&#8217;s remarks about recent anti-tax demonstrations and broader grievances over the high cost of living, corruption, unemployment, and substantial wage bills. A heavy police presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/01000000-0a00-0242-635e-08dc96caea4e_w408_r1.avif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15510,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15508\/revisions\/15510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}