A brave NTV Journalist has gone viral after confronting a police officer who was beating peaceful protesters in the streets of Nairobi.
Ibrahim Karanja, the NTV Journalist was covering protests around and outside Nation Center along Kimathi Street in Nairobi when police officers started harassing protesters who were peacefully picketing.
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As he was reporting live on TV, he noticed the police officer starting to beat up a protester and immediately stopped reporting and ran towards the police officer and confronted him for his actions.
“There is a police beating up (a protester)… Why are you beating people? No no no. That is wrong. He is beating up protesters,” he said while chasing after the officer who started running away after noticing the camera.
However, it’s not clear whether the victim sustained serious injuries as Ibrahim Karanja tried to follow the police officer before vanishing into other officers with the victim also managing to scamper to safety.
This comes amid nationwide protests that have attracted huge numbers of kenyans who want the Finance Bill 2024 dropped in its entirety following high taxation that has been incorporated in the bill.
During the protests that kicked off in the morning, chaos erupted in NAIROBI forcing police to lob teargas at demonstrators, most of whom insisted that they were peaceful.
The protesters, most of whom have been branded as Gen Zs have expressed their dissatisfaction with the state’s changes to the bill and are adamant that the entire proposal be rejected.
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The bill is expected to be voted in Parliament this afternoon with members of parliament expected to vote against the Finance Bill 2024 or the demonstrations will move to the next week.