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The Journal
07-05-2025
- Business
- The Journal
RPZ changes will have 'significant impact' says Minister, who claims he understands renters' fears
PROPOSED CHANGES TO the Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) rules will have a 'significant impact', according to Housing Minister James Browne, who also said the government wants to 'strike a balance' in terms of driving supply while protecting renters. The minister said he has received a report from the Housing Agency, which includes a review of the rental sector, and that he is studying the recommendations it contains. It is understood the minister will take a few weeks to consider the paper and the options presented in it about the future of RPZs. Browne said there are a lot of 'moving parts' to the report, but that he plans to make a decision quickly on whether to lift the rent caps or not. 'No matter what decision to make, it'll have significant impact. I want to protect renters. That's both renters who are currently renting, but also those who are living at homes with their parents who want to get out to rent. We have a major issue with supply or the lack of supply, in particular in Dublin,' he said. Advertisement 'We have to find that balance,' added the minister who said there will be work done over the next couple of weeks to reach the 'right decision'. Browne said he wants to ensure renters are protected, but also that he wants to increase housing supply. Lifting rent caps Some of the measures under consideration is understood to be the lifting of rent caps for new build apartment blocks, with new tenancies, on developments on brownfield sites. There is also speculation that those in existing tenancies will see their rents stay within the RPZ rule, which allows for a 2% increase every two years. However, if a tenancy ends, landlords could have an option of increasing the rent for the new tenant above the 2%. The minister said he understood the fears of renters who fear what the future holds. 'That's why we want to make that decision relatively quickly, so this is not something that's going to hang around them the next few months, we'll be making those decisions quite quickly so they know where they stand,' said the minister. Read Next Related Reads Taoiseach says no decisions made yet on Rent Pressure Zone changes Renters 'bracing themselves' for increases as Taoiseach slammed over rent pressure zone comments 'But renters very much are to the forefront of my concerns,' he added. He also said that the government doesn't want to create a situation whereby they are trying to 'solve one problem and then we create an affordability piece'. 'There's already an affordability challenge out there for renters, so it's a difficult challenge we have in front of us. I'm confident we'll make the right decision, but we're not going to be rushed into it at the same time. We need to make that decision quickly so renters fears are allayed,' said Browne. The Irish Property Owners Association (IPOA) met with the housing minister last week to discuss the rental market and raised concerns over the RPZ rules which it says are impacting landlords. Mary Conway, Chairperson of the IPOA said private landlords must be supported to ensure they reinvest and remain in the market, at the risk of losing affordable properties from the rental market. Readers like you are keeping these stories free for everyone... A mix of advertising and supporting contributions helps keep paywalls away from valuable information like this article. Over 5,000 readers like you have already stepped up and support us with a monthly payment or a once-off donation. Learn More Support The Journal
Saudi Gazette
28-04-2025
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- Saudi Gazette
Security forces who shot Kenya anti-tax protesters identified
NAIROBI — The members of Kenya's security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country's parliament last June have been identified by the BBC. The BBC's analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not posing a threat. The East African nation's constitution guarantees the right to peaceful protest, and the deaths caused a public outcry. Despite a parliamentary committee ordering Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to investigate the deaths on the streets of the capital, Nairobi — and make public its findings — no report regarding the killings at parliament has yet been issued and no-one has been held to account. The BBC World Service team analyzed videos and photos taken by protesters and journalists on the day. We determined when each was taken using camera metadata, livestream timings and public clocks visible in the shots. We plotted three of the killings on a 3D reconstruction of Kenya's parliament, allowing us to trace the fatal shots back to the rifles of a police officer and a follows is BBC Africa Eye's detailed timeline of events as Kenya's MPs entered parliament for the final vote on the government's controversial finance bill, while protesters amassed on the streets outside on Tuesday 25 June people, labeled Gen Z protesters who had mobilized themselves on social media, began streaming into central Nairobi early in the morning — in what would be the capital's third large-scale protest since the finance bill was introduced on 9 May."It was a beautiful party," says prominent human rights activist Boniface Mwangi, who was there."Kids came out with Bluetooth speakers and their water. It was a carnival."Protests earlier in the week had already led lawmakers to axe tax increases on bread, cooking oil, mobile money and motor vehicles, as well as an eco levy that would have raised the cost of goods like nappies and sanitary other measures to raise the $2.7bn (£2bn) the government said it needed to cut its reliance on external borrowing, such as higher import taxes and another on specialised hospitals, remained."For the first time it was the Kenyan people — the working class and the middle class and the lower class — against the ruling class," says protesters had one target — parliament, where the final vote was taking 09:30 local time, the last of the MPs filed into the lower thousands pushed towards Parliament Road from the east, north and west of the city."For me, it was just a normal day," says 26-year-old student journalist Ademba were livestreaming on their TikTok and Instagram accounts, while events were broadcast live on national TV, he first, protesters were held back at roadblocks by tear gas and truncheons, then police started using water cannons and rubber 13:00, more than 100,000 people were on the streets."The numbers start getting bigger and people actually start getting arrested," says Allans. "The police are everywhere. They're trying to push people back. People are even climbing on top of those water cannons."Despite the growing chaos outside, MPs remained in the chamber and the voting 14:00, protesters had pushed police all the way back to the northeastern corner of at 14:14, the Finance Bill 2024 was voted in: 195 in favor, 106 against. Opposition MPs stormed out and word instantly reached the masses outside."This is when everybody is saying: 'Whatever happens, we are going to enter the parliament and show the MPs that we believe in what we're fighting for,'" says 14:20, protesters finally broke through the police blockade and reached the road running alongside abandoned police truck stationed outside the gates was set on fire. Fences were torn down and protesters set foot on parliamentary grounds. The incursion was short-lived. Parliamentary security forces quickly cleared them the same time, police officers went back up Parliament Road in force to drive the protesters this was happening, journalists were filming, producing minute-by-minute footage from many of those videos captured a plain-clothes police officer shouting "uaa!", the Swahili word for "kill". Seconds later, a police officer knelt, gunshots were heard and protesters in the crowd collapsed — seven in Chege, a 39-year-old software engineer and Sunday school teacher, and Ericsson Mutisya, a 25-year-old butcher, were shot dead. Five other men were wounded, one of whom was left paralysed from the waist shows Allans, the student journalist, holding up a Kenyan flag as he tried to reach Chege and another casualty bleeding out after the who fired those shots?In the video of the officer shouting, "uaa!", the shooter's back was to the camera. But the BBC compared his body armor, riot shield and headgear with that of every police officer at the his case, he had an upturned neck guard. We matched his distinctive uniform to an officer in a video recorded seconds later. There, he made sure to hide his face before firing into the crowd. We do not know his after the fatal shots, the plain-clothes officer could still be heard urging his colleagues forward to "kill". He was not so cautious about concealing his identity: his name is John sources have told the BBC he is based at the Central Nairobi Police BBC put its allegations to Kenya's police service, which said the force could not investigate itself, adding that the IPOA was responsible for investigating alleged has been approached for comment and not one has been held accountable for the deaths of Chege or Mutisya. The BBC found that neither of them was these would not be the only lives lost. Rather than spook the demonstrators, the killings galvanized them and they tried for parliament 14:57 they made it shows them breaking down the fences and walking across the parliament's grounds. Many had their hands up. Others were holding placards or the Kenyan shots were fired. The demonstrators ducked down, then continued towards the building, filming on their phones as they inside, momentum turned to mayhem. Doors were kicked in, part of the complex was set alight and the last of the MPs fled the destruction was severe but, after five minutes, footage showed them leaving the same way they had come 15:04, shots rang out again and protesters tumbled across the flattened fence. As the smoke cleared, camera footage showed three bodies lying on the ground. Two were wounded — one raised his hand but could not get third, 27-year-old finance student Eric Shieni, was dead — shot in the head from behind as he was leaving the grounds. The BBC again found, as in the cases of Chege and Mutisya, that he had been unarmed."The video is very clear," says Faith Odhiambo, president of the Law Society of Kenya."The aim was to kill those protesters. They could have had him arrested. But the fact that you shoot his head — it was clearly an intention to kill."You have become the judge, the jury and the sentence executioner for Eric."The Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) told the BBC the IPOA had not forwarded any request to look into any of its personnel involved in the operations at added: "The KDF remains fully committed to upholding the rule of law and continues to operate strictly within its constitutional mandate."After the shooting Allans is seen again, leading the evacuation. Footage shows him carrying a man with blood gushing from his leg."I feared for my life, that my parents would never see me again," he says."But I also feared to let other people die when I could help."As the sun set on 25 June, the country was reeling. After a week of protests, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights declared that 39 people had died and 361 had been injured around the evening President William Ruto thanked his security officers for their "defense of the nation's sovereignty" against "organized criminals" who had "hijacked" the following day, the finance bill was dropped."Listening keenly to the people of Kenya, who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with this Finance Bill 2024, I concede," the president said in a national televised address, adding he would not sign it into to this day no security officer has been held to account for the deaths and no official investigation has been published. — BBC
BBC News
28-04-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
'Dem aim to kill' - BBC identify security forces wey shoot Kenya anti-tax protesters
BBC don identify di members of Kenya security forces wey shoot anti-tax protesters for di kontri parliament last June. Di BBC analysis of more dan 5,000 images also show say dose wey dem kill for dia no get any weapon and dem no pose any threat. Di East African nation constitution guarantee di right to peaceful protest, and di deaths cause a public outcry. Despite a parliamentary committee wey order Kenya Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to investigate di deaths on di streets of di capital, Nairobi - and make dia findings public - dem neva issue any report about di killings for parliament and dem neva bring anyone to account. Di BBC World Service team analyse videos and fotos wey protesters and journalists take on dat day. We determine wen dem take each of dem using camera metadata, livestream timings and public clocks wey dey visible for di shots. We plot three of di killings on a 3D reconstruction of Kenya parliament, wey allow us to trace di fatal shots back to di rifles of a police officer and a soldier. Wetin follow na BBC Africa Eye detailed timeline of events as Kenya MPs enta parliament for di final vote on di govment controversial finance bill, while protesters plenti for di streets outside on Tuesday 25 June 2024. Warning: Dis story contain images of dead bodies Young pipo wey dem label as Gen Z protesters mobilise demsef for social media, begin to stream into central Nairobi early morning. Dis be like di capital third large-scale protest since di finance bill dey introduced on 9 May. "Na beautiful party," prominent human rights activist Boniface Mwangi, wey dey dia, tok. "Kids come out wit Bluetooth speakers and dia water. Na carnival." Protests earlier for di week don already lead lawmakers to cut tax increases on bread, cooking oil, mobile money and motor vehicles, as well as an eco levy wey for don raise di cost of goods like nappies and sanitary towels. But oda measures to raise di $2.7bn (£2bn) wey di govment say e need to cut dia worry ova external borrowing, such as higher import taxes and anoda on specialised hospitals, bin remain. "For di first time na di Kenyan pipo- di working class and di middle class and di lower class - against di ruling class," Mwangi say. Di protesters get one target - parliament, wia di final vote dey take place. By 09:30 local time, di last of di MPs filed into di lower house. Outside, thousands push towards Parliament Road from di east, north and west of di city. "For me, na just a normal day," 26-year-old student journalist Ademba Allans say. Pipo dey livestream for dia TikTok and Instagram accounts, while events dey broadcast live on national TV, e add. At first, dem hold protesters back for roadblocks by tear gas and truncheons, den police start to dey use water cannons and rubber bullets. By 13:00, more dan 100,000 pipo don dey for streets. "Di numbers start to get bigger and pipo actually start to chop arrest," Allans say. "Di police dey evriwia. Dem dey try to push pipo back. Pipo dey even climb on top of dose water cannons." Despite di growing wahala wey dey outside, MPs remain for di chamber and di voting begin. By 14:00, protesters don push police all di way back to di north-eastern corner of parliament. Inside for 14:14, di Finance Bill 2024 dey voted in: 195 in favour, 106 against. Opposition MPs storm out and word sharply reach di masses outside. "Dis na wen evribodi say: 'Wateva happun, we dey go enta di parliament and show di MPs say we believe wetin we dey fight for,'" Allans say. For 14:20, protesters finally break through di police blockade and reach di road wey run alongside parliament. An abandoned police truck wey dey stationed outside di gates, dem set am on fire. Fences dey torn down and protesters set foot on parliamentary grounds. Di invasion dey short-lived. Parliamentary security forces quickly clear dem out. For di same time, police officers go back up Parliament Road wit force to drive di protesters back. While dis dey happun, journalists dey film, produce minute-by-minute footage from many angles. One of dose videos bin capture a plain-clothes police officer wey dey shout "uaa!", di Swahili word for "kill". Seconds later, a police officer kneel down, gunshots bin sound and protesters for di crowd collapse - total of seven. David Chege, a 39-year-old software engineer and Sunday-school teacher, and Ericsson Mutisya, a 25-year-old butcher, dey shoot dem dead. Five oda men dey injured, one of dem dey paralysed from di waist down. Footage show Allans, di student journalist, e dey hold up a Kenyan flag as e try to reach Chege and anoda casualty bleeding out afta di gunfire. But who fire dose shots? For di video of di officer wey dey shout, "uaa!", di shooter back di camera. But di BBC compare im body armour, riot shield and headgear wit dat of evri police officer for di scene. For im case, e e get an upturned neck guard. We match im distinctive uniform to an officer for a video recorded seconds later. For dia, e make sure say e cover im face bifor firing into di crowd. We no sabi im name. Even afta di fatal shots, we still fit hear di plain-clothes officer dey tell im colleagues to move forward to "kill". E no so cautious to hide im identity: im name na John Kaboi. Multiple sources tell di BBC say e dey based for di Central Nairobi Police Station. Di BBC put di allegations to Kenya police service, wey tok say di force no fit investigate diasef. Dem add say di IPOA dey responsible to investigate alleged misconduct. We don approach Kaboi for comment and e no reply. Dem neva hold anyone accountable for di deaths of Chege or Mutisya. Di BBC find say two of dem no dey armed. But dis no be di only lives lost. Rather dan stop demonstrators, di killings vex dem and dem try di parliament again. At 14:57 dem enta. Footage show dem as dem dey break down di fences and walk across di parliament grounds. Many put dia hands up. Odas dey hold placards or di Kenyan flag. Dem fire warning shots. Di demonstrators lay down, den kontinue towards di building, as dem film on dia phones as dem dey go. Once inside, momentum turn to mayhem. Dem kick into doors, part of di complex dey set on fire and di last of di MPs run comot di building. Di destruction dey severe, afta five minutes, footage show dem dey comot for di same way dem come in. At 15:04, shots ring out again and protesters fall ontop di flat fence. As di smoke clear, camera footage show three bodies wey dey lie for ground. Two dey wounded - one raise im hand but e no fit get up. Di third, 27-year-old finance student Eric Shieni, don die - dem shoot am for head from behind as e dey comot for di ground. Di BBC again find, as di cases of Chege and Mutisya, say e no dey armed. BBC Africa Eye analyse more dan 150 images wey dem take during di minutes bifor and afta dem shoot Shieni. We fit to identify di soldier wey fire for di back of im head from 25m (82ft) away - again, we no sabi im name. "Di video dey veri clear," Faith Odhiambo, president of di Law Society of Kenya say. "Di aim na to kill dose protesters. Dem for arrest am. But di fact say you shoot im head - e dey clearl say na intention to kill. "You don become di judge, di jury and di sentence executioner for Eric." Di Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) tell di BBC say di IPOA neva forward any request to look into any of dia personnel wey dey involved for di operations for di parliament. E add: "Di KDF remain fully committed to uphold di rule of law and kontinue to operate strictly within dia constitutional mandate." Afta di shooting Allans show again, to lead di evacuation. Footage show am dey carry a man wit blood gushing from im leg. "I fear for my life, say my parents no go eva see me again," e say. "But I also fear to let oda pipo die wen I fit help." As di sun set on 25 June, di country dey silent. Afta a week of protests, di Kenya National Commission on Human Rights declare say 39 pipo die and 361 dey injured around di kontri. Dat evening President William Ruto tank im security officers for dia "defence of di nation sovereignty" against "organised criminals" wey "hijack" di protests. Di following day, dem drop di finance bill. "Listening keenly to di people of Kenya, wey loudly say dem no want anytin to do wit dis Finance Bill 2024, I agree," di president tok for a national televised address, e add say im no go sign am into law. But to dis day dem neva hold any security officer to account for di deaths and dem neva publish any official investigation. Additional reporting by BBC film editors Valeria Cardi and Emile Costard Read more about Kenya tax protest:
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
'They aimed to kill' - BBC identifies security forces who shot Kenya anti-tax protesters
The members of Kenya's security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country's parliament last June have been identified by the BBC. The BBC's analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not posing a threat. The East African nation's constitution guarantees the right to peaceful protest, and the deaths caused a public outcry. Despite a parliamentary committee ordering Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to investigate the deaths on the streets of the capital, Nairobi - and make public its findings - no report regarding the killings at parliament has yet been issued and no-one has been held to account. The BBC World Service team analysed videos and photos taken by protesters and journalists on the day. We determined when each was taken using camera metadata, livestream timings and public clocks visible in the shots. We plotted three of the killings on a 3D reconstruction of Kenya's parliament, allowing us to trace the fatal shots back to the rifles of a police officer and a soldier. What follows is BBC Africa Eye's detailed timeline of events as Kenya's MPs entered parliament for the final vote on the government's controversial finance bill, while protesters amassed on the streets outside on Tuesday 25 June 2024. Warning: This story contains images of dead bodies Young people, labelled Gen Z protesters who had mobilised themselves on social media, began streaming into central Nairobi early in the morning - in what would be the capital's third large-scale protest since the finance bill was introduced on 9 May. "It was a beautiful party," says prominent human rights activist Boniface Mwangi, who was there. "Kids came out with Bluetooth speakers and their water. It was a carnival." Protests earlier in the week had already led lawmakers to axe tax increases on bread, cooking oil, mobile money and motor vehicles, as well as an eco levy that would have raised the cost of goods like nappies and sanitary towels. But other measures to raise the $2.7bn (£2bn) the government said it needed to cut its reliance on external borrowing, such as higher import taxes and another on specialised hospitals, remained. "For the first time it was the Kenyan people - the working class and the middle class and the lower class - against the ruling class," says Mwangi. The protesters had one target - parliament, where the final vote was taking place. By 09:30 local time, the last of the MPs filed into the lower house. Outside, thousands pushed towards Parliament Road from the east, north and west of the city. "For me, it was just a normal day," says 26-year-old student journalist Ademba Allans. People were livestreaming on their TikTok and Instagram accounts, while events were broadcast live on national TV, he adds. At first, protesters were held back at roadblocks by tear gas and truncheons, then police started using water cannons and rubber bullets. By 13:00, more than 100,000 people were on the streets. "The numbers start getting bigger and people actually start getting arrested," says Allans. "The police are everywhere. They're trying to push people back. People are even climbing on top of those water cannons." Despite the growing chaos outside, MPs remained in the chamber and the voting began. By 14:00, protesters had pushed police all the way back to the north-eastern corner of parliament. Inside at 14:14, the Finance Bill 2024 was voted in: 195 in favour, 106 against. Opposition MPs stormed out and word instantly reached the masses outside. "This is when everybody is saying: 'Whatever happens, we are going to enter the parliament and show the MPs that we believe in what we're fighting for,'" says Allans. At 14:20, protesters finally broke through the police blockade and reached the road running alongside parliament. An abandoned police truck stationed outside the gates was set on fire. Fences were torn down and protesters set foot on parliamentary grounds. The incursion was short-lived. Parliamentary security forces quickly cleared them out. At the same time, police officers went back up Parliament Road in force to drive the protesters back. While this was happening, journalists were filming, producing minute-by-minute footage from many angles. One of those videos captured a plain-clothes police officer shouting "uaa!", the Swahili word for "kill". Seconds later, a police officer knelt, gunshots were heard and protesters in the crowd collapsed - seven in total. David Chege, a 39-year-old software engineer and Sunday-school teacher, and Ericsson Mutisya, a 25-year-old butcher, were shot dead. Five other men were wounded, one of whom was left paralysed from the waist down. Footage shows Allans, the student journalist, holding up a Kenyan flag as he tried to reach Chege and another casualty bleeding out after the gunfire. But who fired those shots? In the video of the officer shouting, "uaa!", the shooter's back was to the camera. But the BBC compared his body armour, riot shield and headgear with that of every police officer at the scene. In his case, he had an upturned neck guard. We matched his distinctive uniform to an officer in a video recorded seconds later. There, he made sure to hide his face before firing into the crowd. We do not know his name. Even after the fatal shots, the plain-clothes officer could still be heard urging his colleagues forward to "kill". He was not so cautious about concealing his identity: his name is John Kaboi. Multiple sources have told the BBC he is based at the Central Nairobi Police Station. The BBC put its allegations to Kenya's police service, which said the force could not investigate itself, adding that the IPOA was responsible for investigating alleged misconduct. Kaboi has been approached for comment and not replied. No-one has been held accountable for the deaths of Chege or Mutisya. The BBC found that neither of them was armed. But these would not be the only lives lost. Rather than spook the demonstrators, the killings galvanised them and they tried for parliament again. At 14:57 they made it in. Footage shows them breaking down the fences and walking across the parliament's grounds. Many had their hands up. Others were holding placards or the Kenyan flag. Warning shots were fired. The demonstrators ducked down, then continued towards the building, filming on their phones as they went. Once inside, momentum turned to mayhem. Doors were kicked in, part of the complex was set alight and the last of the MPs fled the building. The destruction was severe but, after five minutes, footage showed them leaving the same way they had come in. At 15:04, shots rang out again and protesters tumbled across the flattened fence. As the smoke cleared, camera footage showed three bodies lying on the ground. Two were wounded - one raised his hand but could not get up. The third, 27-year-old finance student Eric Shieni, was dead - shot in the head from behind as he was leaving the grounds. The BBC again found, as in the cases of Chege and Mutisya, that he had been unarmed. BBC Africa Eye analysed more than 150 images taken during the minutes before and after Shieni was shot. We are able to identify the soldier who fired at the back of his head from 25m (82ft) away - again, we do not know his name. "The video is very clear," says Faith Odhiambo, president of the Law Society of Kenya. "The aim was to kill those protesters. They could have had him arrested. But the fact that you shoot his head - it was clearly an intention to kill. "You have become the judge, the jury and the sentence executioner for Eric." The Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) told the BBC the IPOA had not forwarded any request to look into any of its personnel involved in the operations at parliament. It added: "The KDF remains fully committed to upholding the rule of law and continues to operate strictly within its constitutional mandate." After the shooting Allans is seen again, leading the evacuation. Footage shows him carrying a man with blood gushing from his leg. "I feared for my life, that my parents would never see me again," he says. "But I also feared to let other people die when I could help." People outside the UK can watch the documentary on YouTube. As the sun set on 25 June, the country was reeling. After a week of protests, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights declared that 39 people had died and 361 had been injured around the country. That evening President William Ruto thanked his security officers for their "defence of the nation's sovereignty" against "organised criminals" who had "hijacked" the protests. The following day, the finance bill was dropped. "Listening keenly to the people of Kenya, who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with this Finance Bill 2024, I concede," the president said in a national televised address, adding he would not sign it into law. But to this day no security officer has been held to account for the deaths and no official investigation has been published. 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Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Politics
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'They aimed to kill' - BBC identifies security forces who shot Kenya anti-tax protesters
The members of Kenya's security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country's parliament last June have been identified by the BBC. The BBC's analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not posing a threat. The East African nation's constitution guarantees the right to peaceful protest, and the deaths caused a public outcry. Despite a parliamentary committee ordering Kenya's Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to investigate the deaths on the streets of the capital, Nairobi - and make public its findings - no report regarding the killings at parliament has yet been issued and no-one has been held to account. The BBC World Service team analysed videos and photos taken by protesters and journalists on the day. We determined when each was taken using camera metadata, livestream timings and public clocks visible in the shots. We plotted three of the killings on a 3D reconstruction of Kenya's parliament, allowing us to trace the fatal shots back to the rifles of a police officer and a soldier. What follows is BBC Africa Eye's detailed timeline of events as Kenya's MPs entered parliament for the final vote on the government's controversial finance bill, while protesters amassed on the streets outside on Tuesday 25 June 2024. Warning: This story contains images of dead bodies Young people, labelled Gen Z protesters who had mobilised themselves on social media, began streaming into central Nairobi early in the morning - in what would be the capital's third large-scale protest since the finance bill was introduced on 9 May. "It was a beautiful party," says prominent human rights activist Boniface Mwangi, who was there. "Kids came out with Bluetooth speakers and their water. It was a carnival." Protests earlier in the week had already led lawmakers to axe tax increases on bread, cooking oil, mobile money and motor vehicles, as well as an eco levy that would have raised the cost of goods like nappies and sanitary towels. But other measures to raise the $2.7bn (£2bn) the government said it needed to cut its reliance on external borrowing, such as higher import taxes and another on specialised hospitals, remained. "For the first time it was the Kenyan people - the working class and the middle class and the lower class - against the ruling class," says Mwangi. The protesters had one target - parliament, where the final vote was taking place. By 09:30 local time, the last of the MPs filed into the lower house. Outside, thousands pushed towards Parliament Road from the east, north and west of the city. "For me, it was just a normal day," says 26-year-old student journalist Ademba Allans. People were livestreaming on their TikTok and Instagram accounts, while events were broadcast live on national TV, he adds. At first, protesters were held back at roadblocks by tear gas and truncheons, then police started using water cannons and rubber bullets. By 13:00, more than 100,000 people were on the streets. "The numbers start getting bigger and people actually start getting arrested," says Allans. "The police are everywhere. They're trying to push people back. People are even climbing on top of those water cannons." Despite the growing chaos outside, MPs remained in the chamber and the voting began. By 14:00, protesters had pushed police all the way back to the north-eastern corner of parliament. Inside at 14:14, the Finance Bill 2024 was voted in: 195 in favour, 106 against. Opposition MPs stormed out and word instantly reached the masses outside. "This is when everybody is saying: 'Whatever happens, we are going to enter the parliament and show the MPs that we believe in what we're fighting for,'" says Allans. At 14:20, protesters finally broke through the police blockade and reached the road running alongside parliament. An abandoned police truck stationed outside the gates was set on fire. Fences were torn down and protesters set foot on parliamentary grounds. The incursion was short-lived. Parliamentary security forces quickly cleared them out. At the same time, police officers went back up Parliament Road in force to drive the protesters back. While this was happening, journalists were filming, producing minute-by-minute footage from many angles. One of those videos captured a plain-clothes police officer shouting "uaa!", the Swahili word for "kill". Seconds later, a police officer knelt, gunshots were heard and protesters in the crowd collapsed - seven in total. David Chege, a 39-year-old software engineer and Sunday-school teacher, and Ericsson Mutisya, a 25-year-old butcher, were shot dead. Five other men were wounded, one of whom was left paralysed from the waist down. Footage shows Allans, the student journalist, holding up a Kenyan flag as he tried to reach Chege and another casualty bleeding out after the gunfire. But who fired those shots? In the video of the officer shouting, "uaa!", the shooter's back was to the camera. But the BBC compared his body armour, riot shield and headgear with that of every police officer at the scene. In his case, he had an upturned neck guard. We matched his distinctive uniform to an officer in a video recorded seconds later. There, he made sure to hide his face before firing into the crowd. We do not know his name. Even after the fatal shots, the plain-clothes officer could still be heard urging his colleagues forward to "kill". He was not so cautious about concealing his identity: his name is John Kaboi. Multiple sources have told the BBC he is based at the Central Nairobi Police Station. The BBC put its allegations to Kenya's police service, which said the force could not investigate itself, adding that the IPOA was responsible for investigating alleged misconduct. Kaboi has been approached for comment and not replied. No-one has been held accountable for the deaths of Chege or Mutisya. The BBC found that neither of them was armed. But these would not be the only lives lost. Rather than spook the demonstrators, the killings galvanised them and they tried for parliament again. At 14:57 they made it in. Footage shows them breaking down the fences and walking across the parliament's grounds. Many had their hands up. Others were holding placards or the Kenyan flag. Warning shots were fired. The demonstrators ducked down, then continued towards the building, filming on their phones as they went. Once inside, momentum turned to mayhem. Doors were kicked in, part of the complex was set alight and the last of the MPs fled the building. The destruction was severe but, after five minutes, footage showed them leaving the same way they had come in. At 15:04, shots rang out again and protesters tumbled across the flattened fence. As the smoke cleared, camera footage showed three bodies lying on the ground. Two were wounded - one raised his hand but could not get up. The third, 27-year-old finance student Eric Shieni, was dead - shot in the head from behind as he was leaving the grounds. The BBC again found, as in the cases of Chege and Mutisya, that he had been unarmed. BBC Africa Eye analysed more than 150 images taken during the minutes before and after Shieni was shot. We are able to identify the soldier who fired at the back of his head from 25m (82ft) away - again, we do not know his name. "The video is very clear," says Faith Odhiambo, president of the Law Society of Kenya. "The aim was to kill those protesters. They could have had him arrested. But the fact that you shoot his head - it was clearly an intention to kill. "You have become the judge, the jury and the sentence executioner for Eric." The Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) told the BBC the IPOA had not forwarded any request to look into any of its personnel involved in the operations at parliament. It added: "The KDF remains fully committed to upholding the rule of law and continues to operate strictly within its constitutional mandate." After the shooting Allans is seen again, leading the evacuation. Footage shows him carrying a man with blood gushing from his leg. "I feared for my life, that my parents would never see me again," he says. "But I also feared to let other people die when I could help." People outside the UK can watch the documentary on YouTube. As the sun set on 25 June, the country was reeling. After a week of protests, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights declared that 39 people had died and 361 had been injured around the country. That evening President William Ruto thanked his security officers for their "defence of the nation's sovereignty" against "organised criminals" who had "hijacked" the protests. The following day, the finance bill was dropped. "Listening keenly to the people of Kenya, who have said loudly that they want nothing to do with this Finance Bill 2024, I concede," the president said in a national televised address, adding he would not sign it into law. But to this day no security officer has been held to account for the deaths and no official investigation has been published. 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