Police officers were on Saturday, May 1, deployed in Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) following a protest by workers and human rights defenders. The protestors vowed to match to State House to get the attention of President Uhuru Kenyatta, whom they wanted to listen to their problems. "My advisers indicated that if we are to mitigate this virus, the only thing we can do is lockdown. In fact, if we had gone by their extreme, they had wanted me to lock down the whole country. "We had to tell them that we have an economy to protect and livelihoods and that is why they picked those counties that we locked down as the most heavily infected and we went for a partial lockdown," Kenyatta stated.

Source: Daily Nation May 01, 2021 08:03 UTC