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Kenya: Protest Over MPs' Pay Turns into a Pig Deal
Capital FM, 14 May 2013
Civil society groups on Tuesday outdid themselves as they unleashed more than 10 pigs and poured jerrycans of blood smack outside Parliament, as a symbolic gesture of the contempt… Read more »
Kenya: Blood, Pigs Used in Protest Over MPs' Pay Hike
Civil society groups - outraged over planned government salary increases - have poured blood over pigs in a symbollic gesture of contempt towards members of parliament.
Kenyan civil society groups unleashed pigs and poured jerrycans of blood smack outside Parliament, as a gesture of contempt for MPs - labelled MPigs - for demanding higher pay.
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