{"id":55608,"date":"2024-06-20T10:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/20\/anti-finance-bill-protestors-in-kisumu-engage-police-in-running-battles\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:03:08","slug":"anti-finance-bill-protestors-in-kisumu-engage-police-in-running-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/anti-finance-bill-protestors-in-kisumu-engage-police-in-running-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Finance bill protestors in Kisumu engage police in running battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISUMU, Kenya, Jun 20 \u2013 Anti- Finance Bill demonstrators in Kisumu engaged police in running battles as they lit bonfires on the road. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The peaceful protest staged by Generation Z from Kondele marched through the city streets before being overtaken by marauding youths.<\/p>\n<p>The youths pelted the Central Police station with stones.<\/p>\n<p>Police however restrained themselves within the station, while monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrations are underway in various parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In Nairobi, police lobbed teargas to disperse protestors with City Hall way and Parliament building cordoned off with heavy security.<\/p>\n<p>The protests also rocked Nakuru town where chanting youths walked along the main Kenyatta Avenue waving placards with various messages.<\/p>\n<p>Similar peaceful demonstrations are underway in Eldoret, Nanyuki, Nyeri, Kisii and Kakamega.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISUMU, Kenya, Jun 20 \u2013 Anti- Finance Bill demonstrators in Kisumu engaged police in running battles as they lit bonfires on the road. The peaceful protest staged by Generation Z from Kondele marched through the city streets before being overtaken by marauding youths. The youths pelted the Central Police station with stones. Police however restrained [&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-55608","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\/55608","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=55608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}