Teargas, batons as Kenyans pour into the streets in 'day of rage'

This year is ending just the same way it started.

There is heightened anxiety over police brutality and threats of street protests.

Yesterday, as the count down to the New Year began, Kenyans poured out their frustrations against the government in streets and in social media spaces in a conversation saturated with police batons and tear gas canisters in various parts of the country.

Although veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose eyes are focused on Ethiopia and the looming elections for the chairperson of African Union Commission, was absent from the streets, the Generation Z demonstrators kept the flames of their freedom burning over plumes of tear gas fumes.