Regrouping Gen Z are far from vanquished and are devising new tactics of showing their displeasure with the Ruto regime
Just days after seeing their movement infiltrated and push almost neutralised, Gen Z have started mobilising for what could be the second phase of their protests as it emerges that they are planning a “small meeting” between President William Ruto and “two to three million” of them at Statehouse on August Eighth.
Dubbed ‘Nane Nane’ the meeting’s proposers say their agenda will be to get President to tell them what he had done for the last two years and how he intends to address the problems that the country is facing. The move comes after police adopted use of excessive force to deal with demonstrators, who have also bene infiltrated by paid goons hired by upcountry and Nairobi politicians to disrupt the movement’s momentum.
The planners of the “meeting” asked youth in Nairobi to help their upcountry counterparts to travel to Nairobi for the meeting. They intend to ask the President explain to them the few things he has done and how he has done them. The planners appealed to all those youth that stand for good government, transparency and accountability to attend the meeting and get answers from the President.
One of the advocates of them meeting claimed that some youth may have been paid to celebrate the nomination of some ;politicians into the Ruto cabinet, saying that what they were fighting for was not for individuals to get posh jobs but good governance. Analysts quickly pointed out that this could be a regrouping of the Gen Z, who some politicians believed may have been vanquished by the force with which the government has come down on the protests and could turn out to be the turning point of the struggle to remove Ruto from office.