Anger after Rose Njeri arrest over anti-Finance Bill 2025 website

35-year-old Rose Njeri who was arrested for creating an anti-Finance Bill 2025 website allowing Kenyans to submit their views on the bill. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Police on Friday arrested a digital marketer for creating a website that allowed citizens to submit their objections to the Finance Bill, 2025.

By last evening, Rose Njeri, the 38-year-old, was still held at the Pangani Police Station, invoking memories of last year’s crackdown meted out on dissenters to the Finance Bill.

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