{"id":40152,"date":"2024-06-27T03:43:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40152"},"modified":"2024-06-27T03:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T03:43:38","slug":"kenyas-president-withdraws-tax-plan-after-deadly-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=40152","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s president withdraws tax plan after deadly protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya\u2019s President William Ruto says he will withdraw a finance bill containing controversial tax hikes after deadly protests which saw parliament set ablaze on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an address to the nation, he said it was clear that Kenyans &#8220;want nothing&#8221; to do with the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I concede,&#8221; he said, adding that he would not sign the bill into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 22 people were killed in Tuesday\u2019s protests, according to the state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Kenya\u2019s President William Ruto says he will withdraw a finance bill containing controversial tax hikes after deadly protests which saw parliament set ablaze on Tuesday. In an address to the nation, he said it was clear that Kenyans &#8220;want nothing&#8221; to do with the bill. &#8220;I concede,&#8221; he said, adding that he would not sign the bill into law. At least 22 people were killed in Tuesday\u2019s protests, according to the state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNHRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40154,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40152\/revisions\/40154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}