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Finance Bill protests

How youth cornered stubborn MPs to abandon pay rise

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Anti-government protesters use a police shield to protect themselves from tear gas canisters on Tom Mboya Street in Nairobi on July 2, 2024. 

Photo credit: Evans Habil | Nation Media Group

By  Alex Ndegwa

Nation Media group

On September 21, 2022, the chairperson of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) Lyn Mengich was under siege for six hours by hostile MPs.

Just a month after election to Parliament in the August 9, 2022 General Election, the lawmakers were furious about pay cuts proposed by the SRC.

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