NAIROBI: Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga asked his supporters on Tuesday (Jun 27) to boycott a raft of new taxes on items including fuel and housing, stoking potential confrontation with the government of his rival President William Ruto. The levies were contained in a finance bill that was signed i
NAIROBI: Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga asked his supporters on Tuesday to boycott a raft of new taxes on items including fuel and housing, stoking potential confrontation with the government of his rival President William Ruto."Through civil disobedience, we will deny Ruto the taxes he thinks he can extort from us by force," Odinga told thousands of cheering and dancing supporters at a rally in the capital Nairobi.
The 78-year-old Odinga, who lost the election to Ruto last year, repeatedly asked his followers to engage in acts of civil disobedience against a government he accuses of raising the cost of living and consolidating power.
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