The Communist Party of Kenya has lashed out at President William Ruto’s administration for atrocities committed to Kenyans throughout the entire period Ruto has been in power – and especially during the recent nationwide anti-government demonstrations.
Speaking at the Dakar International Conference, focused on an anti-imperialist platform, the party’s vice-chair Booker Omole said that Ruto had ceased to be a servant of the Kenyan people and was now working for foreign governments and bodies.
Calling him a puppet of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other global capitalist institutions, Omole said that Ruto’s government was enforcing anti-people policies while at the same time brutalizing his own people.
The statement read: "When the brave youth of our nation, led by the Gen Z generation, rose peacefully to reject this Finance Bill, they were met not with dialogue but with unrelenting state
terror."“This Gen Z uprising, or what we now call the Gen Z Social Explosion, revealed the true character of the Ruto regime: a fascist state that will stop at nothing to crush dissent.
“The only “crime” of these young protesters was their bold rejection of neoliberalism and imperialism—ideologies that have impoverished millions in Kenya and across the continent.
“The state responded to the peaceful protests with unrestrained violence. The government unleashed both conventional security forces—the police and military—and illegal police squads operating as state-sanctioned militias.
“Their objective was not only to suppress the uprising but to exterminate and torture those who dared to challenge the regimes imperialist project.
“Over 78 young Kenyans were brutally murdered by the state, martyred for standing on the side of justice and resisting economic exploitation.”
