Disco dissent: Gen Z fills nightclubs with anti-Finance Bill chants

Chants of ‘Ruto Must Go’ reverberated in nightclubs in cities and major towns across the country as Generation Z took their campaign against Finance Bill 2024 a notch higher.

Videos shared on social media showed that nightclubs in Nairobi, Nakuru, and Eldoret cities and major towns of Kericho, Narok and Naivasha broke into Ruto Must Go and Reject Finance Bill chants around Saturday midnight as the push to have Kenya Kwanza government drop the Bill intensified.

In what appeared as well-coordinated night protests, Disk Jockeys (DJs) in the nightclubs stopped the music and led revellers in the chants.

For between 15 to 30 minutes, Timba XO club and Tamasha clubs in Eldoret, Space Next Door and Platinum 7D in Nakuru City broke into wild chants against the Bill and the president.

What started last week as anger on TikTok about the controversial Finance Bill has morphed into a revolt that is likely to be a sustained political conscience to defend the Constitution.

Those behind the protest have not only kept the protest on the streets of Nairobi, but they spread across other cities and major towns.

They have taken it to social places as was witnessed last Saturday night.

The nightclub protest was also well-coordinated and mobilized on social media on Saturday morning via Space chat on Twitter.

Titus Odhiambo, alias DJ Montana had it rough in Kitale as his plan of nonstop music night in a nightclub was interrupted by both intoxicated and sober revellers.

Speaking to The Standard, Montana said he was interrupted more than 20 times and directed to stop the music before the revellers burst into ‘Reject Finance Bill 2024!’ chants.

“It was a difficult night because we are never used to interruptions. But if we refused to stop the music, the Gen Zs would turn against us and order us removed from our machines,” said Montana.