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As the country reels from the carnage left behind by this week’s Gen Z-led protests, a deafening question now dominates the national conversation: Who is to be blamed? The government? The opposition? Or a system that no longer listens?
At least 16 Kenyans are confirmed dead, over 400 injured, and scores more missing after what began as a peaceful memorial march turned into a battlefield in major towns. The chaos, blood, and unanswered questions have now erupted into a full-blown political war—with both President Ruto’s administration and the opposition engaging in a high-stakes blame game while bodies still lie in morgues, some without postmortem clearance.
Government: “The Opposition Incited Bloodshed”
President William Ruto’s top advisers have pointed a fiery finger at the Azimio opposition coalition, accusing them of hijacking youth frustrations to push a dangerous political agenda.
Interior CS Kithure Kindiki told reporters at Harambee House, “We have credible intelligence that the protests were infiltrated and inflamed by opposition operatives. They fueled chaos, they paid mobs, and now they want to play victim.”
Government spokespersons have claimed the “protesters turned militant,” torching government buildings and attacking police officers—prompting what they insist was a “measured response.”
But on the ground, the response was anything but measured.
Opposition: “The Government Has Declared War on the Youth”
Opposition leader Raila Odinga wasted no time in firing back, condemning what he called a “state-sponsored massacre of the innocent.” Speaking at a press briefing outside Chiromo Mortuary, where multiple victims were received, Odinga said:
“Ruto’s regime is killing young Kenyans in cold blood and blaming everyone but themselves. How do you shoot unarmed students, block autopsies, then have the audacity to point fingers?”
Odinga and his allies have called for an independent international inquest, citing multiple families who have been denied the right to postmortem examinations, allegedly to cover up the real causes of death.
A leaked recording from a senior medical officer at a government hospital appeared to confirm that “orders from above” had halted all civilian-initiated autopsies. The recording is now circulating widely online.
Families: “We Want the Truth. Not Politics.”
In the midst of political fireworks, the families of the deceased are left with the harshest reality.
In Mathare, a mother weeps beside the casket of her 17-year-old son, shot in the chest. She wasn’t allowed to see his body for two days. When she demanded an autopsy, she was told to “get police clearance.”
“They killed him. Then they took his body like he was garbage. Now they’re saying it’s the opposition’s fault? We just want to know what happened.”
Who Gave the Order to Shoot?
Despite mounting evidence of live bullets used against unarmed protesters, neither the National Police Service nor the Interior Ministry has taken responsibility. Officers on the ground claim they were following orders. But from whom?
An anonymous police commander from Nairobi Central told Wamuzi News:
“There was panic at the top. Orders kept changing. One minute we were told to hold fire. The next, to clear the streets ‘by any means.’ We knew people would die.”
This revelation suggests the tragic deaths may not just be collateral damage—but a consequence of deliberate tactical decisions.
