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Many of them were demonstrating for the first time and waved signs such as "Do Not Force The Taxes On Us" , while others chanted: “Ruto must go”."I’m here slaving for a country I love. It is the first time I'm doing this because my parents are old and they cannot do it any more," Ken Makilya, a 24-year-old university student, told the BBC.

The hashtags used to pressure MPs and rally protesters were "#OccupyParliament" and "#RejectFinanceBill2024".“This is my first demonstration. I hope it will be the last. I hope things change after this," said Naserian Kasura, who opposed the proposal to tax sanitary pads.The protesters' efforts to march to parliament were thwarted as police used water cannon to block them.

"We have been arrested but don’t let them get to you please proceed to parliament," Hanifa Farsafi, reportedly one of the organisers, posted on X, formerly Twitter.More than 200 young protesters were arrested but some of them were later released after lawyers went to the police stations where they had been detained.

“I am not going, I am not co-operating, why are you arresting me?” one protester was heard saying in a viral video as she refused to board a police vehicle.

Those who did not make it to the streets helped spread the word by sharing messages, pictures and videos on social media.“We will write to people immediately to explain the plans are quite likely to change so we don't know whether their properties are definitely going to be demolished or remodelled at all.

“It will take us some time to confirm that and I am afraid it is just inevitable, there is no point giving people a message that we are not 100% sure of ourselves.“At the same time, we really recognise that we need to try to get some certainty for residents as quickly as possible."

The deputy prime minister has told the BBC she wants the government's Right to Buy housing scheme to continue but that it needed to be "fairer" to the taxpayer.Angela Rayner insisted she was committed to keeping it, as it was important that social tenants were able to buy the homes they had lived in for a long time.