{"id":145956,"date":"2026-07-07T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/orderly-protest-held-in-mombasa-after-police-agreement\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T11:03:10","slug":"orderly-protest-held-in-mombasa-after-police-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/orderly-protest-held-in-mombasa-after-police-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Orderly Protest Held in Mombasa After Police Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 7 \u2013 Residents in Mombasa were allowed to stage a 15-minute march protest through the city\u2019s Central Business District after consultations with police officers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following consultations the police provided security along the agreed route to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers say their protest is aimed at shedding light on poor governance and economic issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCitizens have their rights and their freedoms. So today we are here to remember them and to<strong> <\/strong>build a better Kenya by defending and implementing our constitution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told us that when they came into power they would protect us, but now that they are in power, they are killing us and abducting people. Even Gen Zs who don\u2019t have payslips, they are taxing us on everything. They have ruined education for us; they have ruined everything. So we are saying the fourth struggle and the third struggle is about economic justice,\u201d said a protestor<\/p>\n<p>Business activities largely continued as normal, with security officers remaining deployed across key parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a baddie. I came here because our Gen Zs are being abducted. We aren\u2019t told where they are, and their legs are being broken. When we ask where are our GenZs they don\u2019t want to tell us,\u201d said a female activist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis march today, we have marched well, we have been protected well, and I see we have finished well. I pray all Kenyan police could be like these Mombasa police because we haven\u2019t seen any violence since we started this movement,\u201d another activist added.<\/p>\n<p>Police have maintained a visible presence at the Treasury Square where the participants have staged a Saba Saba commemoration.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Jul 7 \u2013 Residents in Mombasa were allowed to stage a 15-minute march protest through the city\u2019s Central Business District after consultations with police officers. Following consultations the police provided security along the agreed route to ensure public safety. The organisers say their protest is aimed at shedding light on poor governance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}