I hear this is a response to a tax policy related to the IMF.
More so
Kenyan government has been taking out loans for years from World Bank and China at bad interest rates and can't generate revenue to pay them back.
Ukraine war when energy prices skyrocketed is when my friends there really started to feel the crunch.
Ruto comes into power and has been raising taxes and cutting public services (bad policy) to address the debt making life very hard for Kenyans. This Finance Bill was the breaking point but a lot lead up to this.
IMF steps in during the Biden deal and tells them to commit further budget cuts and taxation.
This is all while politicians get paid salaries 10000x what the average Kenyan makes.
Its just sad because without African countries having access to low interest capital and ways to generate revenue, its an endless cycle.