{"id":1347,"date":"2024-06-27T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:00:56","slug":"kenya-president-ruto-yields-to-protesters-rejects-finance-bill-amid-violent-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/06\/27\/kenya-president-ruto-yields-to-protesters-rejects-finance-bill-amid-violent-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: President Ruto Yields To Protesters, Rejects Finance Bill Amid Violent Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/our-member-countries\/kenya\">Kenyan President William Ruto<\/a> has stated that he won\u2019t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes, a day after several protesters were shot dead.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans took to the streets to protest the government\u2019s plan to increase taxes, arguing that it would further strain their finances at a time when many are already struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ruto had previously described the protesters\u2019 actions as \u201ctreasonous,\u201d prompting the government to deploy soldiers to disperse them.<\/p>\n<p>In refusing to approve the proposed legislation, Ruto cited widespread public dissatisfaction and acknowledged that he has listened and conceded to these concerns.<\/p>\n<p>He also addressed the tragic deaths during the protests, describing the situation as unfortunate, and extended his condolences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan President William Ruto has stated that he won\u2019t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes, a day after several protesters were shot dead. Kenyans took to the streets to protest the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}