Kalonzo calls for ‘mother of all protests’ on June 25, declares it a national holiday
Just after the worst “mass” demo ever in Kenya history on April 21, 2026 which Kalonzo’s elder brother Rigathi Gachagua was profusely campaigning for, Kalonzo Musyoka is now calling for the biggest youth protest marches in Kenya on June 25, 2026.
The sheer shame of this Kalonzo call tells Kenyans everything they need to know about the collapsing United Opposition which was riding on the back of Gen Z protests in 2025 and are now restricted to their villages and funerals for their politics.
Speaking at rallies in his own villages where there are more cars transporting politicians than people to listen to them Kalonzo wanted to project himself as the leader of the Gen Z movement in Kenya.
That is dangerous fantasy for Kalonzo after 40 years holding public offices in Kenya.
Kenyan youth will not listen to these political rascals fighting for their dear lives, who have been in government for decades and never did a single thing for the youth of Kenya. Gen Z Kenyans do not need to listen to Kalonzo Musyoka to tell them what to do.
In the media today, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka has said June 25 will be marked as a national holiday by the opposition, announcing plans for what he termed the “mother of all demonstrations” to honour victims of last year’s anti-Finance Bill protests.
“The mother of all demonstrations will be on June 25, to mark the day we lost our children at Parliament during the protests against the Finance Bill,” he said.
He described the events of that day as painful, recalling how families were forced to search for and identify their loved ones in mortuaries following the unrest.
“Our children were killed by snipers, and we had to go to the mortuary to identify them. It was a very bad and hard time,” Kalonzo said.
In a bold declaration, the opposition leader said that he and his allies would treat the day as a national holiday, despite not being in government.
“On that day, together with my colleagues in the alternative government, we will mark it as a public holiday to remember how Kenyan youth shed blood for nothing,” he said.
Kalonzo framed the planned demonstrations as a memorial and a political statement, accusing the government of failing to listen to citizens who opposed the Finance Bill.
However, Kalonzo’s declaration that the day will be marked as a national holiday raises legal questions, as the authority to gazette public holidays lies with the national government.
The detachment between politicians trying to bank on Gen Z resistance in Kenya is exemplified by Kalonzo own statement.
“Our children were killed by snipers, and we had to go to the mortuary to identify them. It was a very bad and hard time,” Kalonzo said.
The difference between the likes of Kalonzo, Gachagua and those politicians trying to drag young Kenyans into the streets is that neither Kalonzo nor Gachagua had to identify their loved family members in those mortuaries Kalonzo is talking about because the kids of the likes of Kalonzo will never appear in those protest marches their parents are calling Kenyan youth to go to.
Kalonzo Musyoka himself will be 71 years old by the time of election in 2027 and he knows it is his last hope because he will be 76 years old in 2032.
Now Kalonzo is hoping that young Kenyans fighting for their lives and their country can put everything on hold and just fight to make Musyoka the president in 2027. Kalonzo needs to look into other options to seek power because the Kenyan youth will not accept the role of being his puppets.
Kalonzo now wants to declare a national holiday for Kenya victims of state violence in 2025 when he has no power to do anything like that.
Why did Kalonzo Musyoka not ask his boss Mwai Kibaki to declare a national holiday after the worst mass massacre of Kenyans during the 2007/8 Post Election Violence when Kalonzo was Kibaki’s Vice President? Those thousands of Kenyans murdered at that time did not mean anything to Kalonzo Musyoka. What is the difference now other than hunger for power by a desperate Kalonzo Musyoka.
