President William Ruto and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga agreed to grant amnesty to those charged while exercising their rights to peaceful assembly.
In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed Friday, aimed at addressing Kenya's social, economic, and political challenges in 2025, the two leaders emphasised that the right to protest is a constitutional right that all Kenyans must be able to enjoy without hindrance.
As part of the agreement, the leaders also pledged to compensate victims of past protests.
“The derogation of rights to peaceful assembly and protests remains one of the most shameful realities on the excesses of Kenya’s law and order responses since independence,” the document reads part.
The efforts to uphold the right, he said, must now involve not just taking responsibility for officers who break the law but also compensation of victims of these derogations, it states.
