GEN ZS SHOULD BLAME THEMSELVES.


Over the last one month, the term Gen Z has been very synonymous with protests. It's a group of young people who came together to fight against the proposed Finance Bill of 2024 , that had many punitive ways to tax Kenyans.

Together, they vowed to occupy all the major towns and cities in the country to force the president to reject the finance bill.

Many people saw this a joke and even MPs allied to the president called them as content creators.


This youthful generation occupied Nairobi CBD and this is how it started. They asked fellow youths to occupy the nearest towns and force the president to reject the bill.


As this was happening, the parliament was busy debating the bill and at the end of the process, the MPs passed the bill and it was then sent to the president to assent to it.

The Gen Zs were angered by the way MPs ignored the pleas and cries from the electorate and this made push to occupy Parliament. 

Again, few believed that this could be possible but at the end of the day, we saw people inside parliament eating what the waheshimiwa were planning to eat 

Scores were killed on the same day while many were injured . This infuriated youths further and they vowed that the Cabinet be dissolved, Inspector General of Police be fired and even the president was asked to resign and dissolve parliament.


What followed was like we were on a rollercoaster. The president rejected the Finance Bill, he dissolved his Cabinet, fired or rather forced the IG to resign and even reduced the State House budget.


It was from here where the Gen Zs lost the plot.

They were invited by the president on the X Space to try and discuss the way forward but they failed to show up.


They still went ahead and planned for further protect that had no basis.


When the President called for dialogue, they refused to take part in it. They still maintained that they were leaderless and this where they got it all wrong. 

This allowed for selfish political leaders to negotiate with the government.

Raila Odinga gained massively despite pretending to be supportive of the protests. 

Gen Zs should blame themselves for lacking structures and planning.

It won't be long before the protests are suppressed.

So those blaming Raila for betraying them should understand that he was never their leader.

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