The epoch leadership changes created by the June 2024 Gen Z protests in Kenya are still ringing loud, not only in the country but across the African continent.
However, debate persists on whether the youth uprising was spontaneous or planned by anti-government saboteurs.
President William Ruto's supporters, like Belgut MP Nelson Koech, who chairs the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations in Parliament, have long argued that former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua planned and organised the protests.
The Gen Z have, however, all along been clear that runaway corruption and bad governance, lack of serious public consultation over the Finance Bill 2024, and ignoring their input drove them into mass protests.
