The Kenyans expressed their anger at the developer of programs that created a tool to help people oppose the government’s annual financing bill because of fears that it would raise the cost of living.
Activists said that Rose Najri was held on Friday after the police raided her house in the capital, Nairobi, and seized electronic losses.
The police and the government have not yet commented on the detention of two mother.
The mass protests erupted last year after the government proposed tax increases, forcing President William Roto to withdraw the financing bill for 2024.
The draft law determines how the government intends to increase income.
At least 50 people were killed and dozens disappeared in the security forces campaign to end the protests that broke out last year.
The head of the Association of Law in Kenya (LSK), Fish, Odyssey, told the BBC New Zaezdai radio program that the detention of Mrs. Najri was “a repetition of the dictatorship.”
On Sunday, a group of activists gathered outside a police station in Nairobi, where the software developer is being held to demand their release.
Mrs. Odhiambo said that Mrs. Najri – who was visited by activists in prison – was “Crestfallen” because with Monday the fact that Monday is a public holiday, she was not brought to court yet.
She added that attempts to release her on bail had failed.
“This has always been a governmental way of persecution, intimidation and repression of citizens because they know that the courts are not sitting on the weekend – and now we have a public holiday,” said Ms. Odemobo.
Boniface MWANGI, one of the activists who visited Mrs. Najri in detention, said that she told them that the police looted her house and took her phone, laptop and hard drives.
He said she was concerned about her two children.
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Mrs. Najri was detained after sharing a link to a site that informed the items in the draft law, which she said would lead to an escalation of the cost of living. It also allowed people to send an email to Parliament, and to call for withdrawing the bill.
It also worried that a proposal to amend the tax procedures, allowing the Tax Authority to access personal data without a court order, can undermine privacy rights.
The new financing bill replaces the tax government is a zero classification on basic commodities with a tax exemption.
Taxes are imposed on goods with a zero classification by 0 %, and suppliers do not charge the value -added tax (VAT) on customers, but they can still claim value -added tax inputs on the materials used in the production of these goods.
Economists and activists say that tax -exempt goods are also not subject to value -added tax, but suppliers cannot claim the entrance to the value -added tax, which leads to high prices of consumers or a decrease in corporate profit margins, as economists and activists say.
Finance Minister John recently admitted that tax -exempt goods may be “slightly more expensive”, but he made it clear that this step was necessary to close tax gaps.
He said that the government decided that the merchants did not pass the benefit to the consumers, while some make “fake and false” claims to recover the recovered amounts.
MBADI is scheduled to make government proposals for spending and taxes in Parliament next week.
Last week, Roto apologized to the Kenyan youth for a “any mistake” in dealing with them since he took office in 2022.
Last month, he said that all the people who were kidnapped after last year protests against the tax height “returned to their families.”
