Kenya withdraws controversial finance bill after protesters’ death

A priest holds a banner while marching against the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi on June 23, 2024. - Protesters organized an outside prayer march calling on the Church to support them against the Finance Bill 2024. Kenya has been experiencing nationwide protests against a controversial bill seeking to increase taxes.

But he warned that the withdrawal of the finance bill would mean a significant shortfall in funding for development programmes designed to help farmers and schoolteachers, among others, as the East African nation struggles to lower its foreign debt burden. Ruto’s administration has been taken by surprise by the intensity of opposition to its tax hikes, with protests breaking out across the country last week.

The state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights said it had recorded 22 deaths and 300 injured victims, adding that they would launch an investigation.

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