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It has been more than a month since Kenyans took to the streets to protest a new tax bill. The Gen-Z movement has remained defiant despite threats to their safety, even after the bill was withdrawn and President William Ruto dismissed his cabinet.    #OIDW #DWVideos #KenyaProtests #GenZMovement #TaxBill #WilliamRuto #KenyansDefiant #StreetProtests #KenyaUnrest #YouthActivism #TaxReform #PoliticalProtests #KenyanPolitics #RutoCabinet #ProtestForChange #KenyaYouth #TaxControversy #KenyaNews #Activism #SocialJustice #PublicOutrage #KenyanYouth #ProtestersVoice #CabinetDismissal #PoliticalActivism #TaxOpposition #KenyansDemandChange #ProtestMovement #PoliticalReform #Kenya2024 #YouthInAction #ProtestRights #KenyanDefiance                 ~PR.152~ED.103~HT.334~

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00:00George Boya is just in time for the action.

00:06The 24-year-old has attended every anti-government protest in Nairobi for the last five weeks

00:11and is still going. For him, this is personal.

00:16I was exposed to injustices at a very early age.

00:20I was used to seeing dead bodies way back from my childhood

00:27and even now growing up to become a young adult in this country

00:32and witnessing the amount of excessive force being used by the law enforcement officers, it's appalling.

00:41Kenya's Commission on Human Rights says at least 50 people have been killed since the protest started.

00:48Despite the risk attending the demonstration's poses, Boya returns every week undeterred and focused.

00:55I know it's easy to be abducted or it's easy to go missing.

00:59So I just find my group of people, we mobilise ourselves and we'll continue being on the street

01:06up until the government listens to our voices.

01:14Shortly after our interview, we're targeted by the police.

01:19We were not too far from here, about 50 metres where somebody had been injured

01:24and police, noticing that a crowd was forming, lobbed at least four canisters of tear gas at us.

01:30All around us you can see young people who are curious, who might be wanting to participate in the protest

01:35but unable to because of the sheer force that police are using.

01:39Now, young people have gathered here today to say to the government

01:42that despite the concessions President Ruto made, they still want more.

01:46We need empowerment. We need change.

01:48Most of our graduates have gone to school but they're not employed.

01:51We're asking the government, when our president was campaigning, to say that we'll create jobs for the youths.

01:55But right now, you see right now, all people on the streets, they're youths but they're not having work.

01:59There's just been piling frustration for a long time.

02:02So we're here today, I guess, because this particular government has been the feather on the camel's back

02:08and we're just tired of it.

02:10We can't go on like this. For how long? For how long?

02:13So we need a solution to all this.

02:16Boya and the protesters out today say they will keep the pressure on the state

02:21until their demands for change are met.

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