The 25th June 2024, came with the violent protests in Kenya, in which demonstrators broke into the parliament, stole the mace and set the building ablaze, as some of them were shot by the police all across the capital. The author does not praise the protests or the violence but notes the government’s recklessness in provoking public disquiet and failing to effectively police the country, while sending 400 policemen to Haiti, the day before.

Other protests occurred on the 27thJune and were characterized by the military reinforcing the police in scenes reminiscent of the post-1982 attempted-coup period. This article argues that the ongoing protests in Kenya, while regrettable, constitutes the citizenry reiterating the true essence of democracy by demanding that the administration prioritize their needs over posturing as a ‘democracy’ by associating with the US and Western Europe.

Double Irony, Donating Police to Remain in Anarchy

June 25th, 2024, will go down in the history as a day when protestors in Kenya broke into the country’s parliament, and caused the parliamentarians to flee, just a day after Kenya had deployed its police to Haiti. A notable section of Kenyans celebrated the protestors’ courage, while the president termed them as treasonous in a short address filled with rage. Kenya’s situation is ironical in two dimensions, the first being that the president -of a democratic state-had given away police for a US-led neocolonial mission to Haiti, while the remaining police clearly failed to secure the capital, and especially the parliament. The second dimension of irony arises in that the citizenry had decried over taxation in the proposed fiscal budget, referred to locally as Finance Bill 2024. However, the........

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