Kenya’s opposition leader urges followers to refrain from paying higher taxes

Tuesday, Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga urged his followers to protest a number of new levies on goods including fuel and housing, igniting the possibility of conflict with the administration of his challenger President William Ruto.

The fees were part of a finance bill that Ruto approved on Monday and became law.

At a demonstration in the Kenyan city of Nairobi, thousands of shouting and dancing supporters heard Odinga say, “Through civil disobedience, we will deny Ruto the taxes he thinks he can extort from us by force.”