The much-hyped fuel price demonstrations flopped dramatically, save for a handful of overzealous professional protestors who have never lost a chance to grab a placard.
The scattering who turned up left no doubt that there was no organisation behind the plan, save for the clarion call for the public to turn out.
Mobilisers of major protest marches revolve around Nairobi and especially the CBD with the aim of catching national media attention and disrupting businesses.
But there lies the danger of a leaderless and rudderless gang of youths who can be infiltrated by goons to mug, loot, beat up and rob protesters. It has happened before and it might surely happen again.
The politicians, famous for their strident noises but short on action, exposed their vulnerability in broad daylight for lack of commitment to the causes they pretend to back.
The Tuesday episode showed that the police, infamous for their use of disproportionate force instead of using their heads, seemed to have turned a page in the fashion in which they dealt with the youths in the CBD.
The protests of the past and the number of police officers charged as a result of not following the law might be yielding lasting results.
Quote of the day: “It’s an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.” —Icelandic writer and Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness was born on April 23, 1902
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