Nakuru: Police fire tear gas to disperse protesters after 6-hour protests

Police in Nakuru fired tear gas canisters to disperse protesters after six hours of peaceful protests within the City's Central Business District.

After walking and chanting for hours, a large section of protestors had decided to stage a sit-in at the KFA roundabout along the Great North Road as their colleagues continued the peaceful matches.

The unrelenting protesters engaged the police in running battles as they kept regrouping and walking back towards the roundabout.

The Great North Road is a main corridor shared among countries in East and Central Africa.

The sit-in had ostensibly created a traffic snarl-up, especially of long-distance trucks that transport goods to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and The Democratic Republic of Congo among other Nations.

The thousands of protesters drawn from four Sub-Counties had earlier broken into more than five groups before joining up within the CBD.

They made several laps through Geoffrey Kamau Street, through to Oginga Odinga Road, West Road and Back to the CBD.

In the morning the police were monitoring the protestors until around 2:30 pm when they (the police) decided to disperse them.

At one point, the protestors pelted stones and broke the windshield of a police vehicle belonging to the Administration Police Unit.

By the time of going to press, the protesters were headed to Nakuru State House.