A group of angry Gen Zs on Friday, May 2, stormed the county Parliament of Mombasa demanding answers over the delayed release of the Mombasa county budget for the upcoming 2025/2026 Financial Year.
Footage obtained by Kenyans.co.ke showed the youths, joined by activists with some having the Kenyan flag tied on their necks, confronting county officials over the lack of transparency and lack of sufficient public participation in the process of coming up with the county's budget worth billions.
In their protests, the Gen Zs criticised Members of County Assembly (MCAs), accusing them of excluding young people from the decision-making process and citing the MCAs' inefficiencies as the root cause of many of the county's problems. "We had to take things into our own hands and bring ourselves here.
What we want immediately addressed is the delayed release of the county budget in 2025/2026.
