Small Traders in Nairobi say they will be holding protests every Friday until KRA agrees to sit down with them and discuss the new taxes.
They say KRA has only been engaging them on social media instead of sitting down with them.
I encountered these traders on City Hall Way outside KICC. They were very orderly, only blowing their whistles and vuvuzela on their way towards Parliament Road. Not chaotic at all, not disorderly or disruptive in any way.
And then the police decided to lob teargas at them. Unprovoked, without any attempt at even controlling and/or guiding them.
Police action elicited pandemonium even to the unaffected non-protesters.
I met Dolly Parton once backstage at a concert. She was so incredibly gracious, warm, and kind to everyone. At one point, she leaned over to me and whispered "Ruto Must Go" Eternal rest to Dolly, she was such a darling and a legend!