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Protesters kick away teargas canisters during Anti-Finance Bill 2024 demos in Nairobi on June 25, 2024. [File, Standard]
The National Police Service (NPS) has been asked to protect protesters who will take to the streets tomorrow on the commemoration of the June 2024 protests.
Lobby groups Law Society of Kenya and Police Reforms Working Group said that the primary role of the police is to facilitate and protect the exercise of the right to picket and demonstrate.
“These memorial processions, widely framed in public discourse as peaceful acts of remembrance, solidarity and continued calls for accountability, fall squarely within the constitutional right of every person to assemble, demonstrate, picket, and present petitions peacefully and unarmed under Article 37 of the Constitution of Kenya,” they said in a statement.
