Chris Barrow
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Demonstrations have been held in several cities across Kenya to honour those killed during the Gen Z anti-government protests two years ago.
Security was tightened in the capital, Nairobi, where police fired tear gas outside the central police station after detaining activists.
One of the protesters, Mwanezi Ahmed, said it was important to remember the anniversary.
Our reporter Richard Kagoe is in Nairobi.
There was a heavy deployment across Nairobi and especially around the central business district.
We had anti-route police who had positioned themselves in key locations.
They mounted barricades, restricted the flow of traffic into the city centre.
Central of Nairobi was quite deserted.
Shops were closed.
Employers told workers to work from home.
Schools are also equally closed, despite the assurances by the government that everything will be OK.
And so there was this tension that was really permitting in the air since morning because out of abundance of caution, a lot of people decided to stay away because of how the events of last year marking the first anniversary of the protest turned out, turned out very bloody.
The whole protest became very chaotic, very violent because of clashes between demonstrators and the police.
And that's basically the situation in Nairobi.
But there were also demonstrations in other parts of the country, in the coastal city of Mombasa.
There were processions that were done there, various marches across the city, though they passed on very peacefully.
And also in central Kenya, there was a bit of an incident where a couple of demonstrators protested.
were also arrested.
But largely, you would say, in some areas, especially the western part of the country, it was really business as usual.
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