Kenya police arrest demonstrators as hundreds protest new tax hikes
A Kenyan journalist falls off a Kenyan police vehicle after he was briefly detained and released while covering the protest against overtaxation by the Kenyan government economic agenda outside the Kenyan Parliament as Members of the Parliament debate the Finance Bill 2024, in Nairobi on June 18, 2024. PHOTO | AFP
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Many demonstrators waved signs emblazoned "do not force the taxes on us", referring to President William Ruto as Zakayo, the Swahili name for the biblical tax collector Zacchaeus.
