Uproar Over X User Claiming He Raped Woman During June 25 Protests
This comes amidst reports of a section of women who were raped and sexually assaulted during the protests on Wednesday, June 25.
Viral Tea Ke Writer 
Kenyans have called for action to be taken against a user on X who claimed that he raped a woman during the June 25 demonstrations held in commemoration of the dozens killed during the anti-Finance Bill 2024 protests last year.
The user operating under the handle Grantgk454 stated explicitly on X that "Kuna kamoja nimekarape walai nimwaga bone marrow" in response to a post by another X user under the handle mlipu_zii who wrote "Wenye mlikuwa mnasema every politician needs goons mmefurahia venye wamerape your sisters and girlfriends sio?"
This comes amidst reports that Viral Tea has been getting of a section of women who were raped and sexually assaulted during the protests on Wednesday, June 25.
Screengrab of the controversial X post which has since been deleted. /X
A spot check of the post by the time this story was published revealed that the post had been deleted. Further, the Grantgk454 account showed it did not exist, an indication that the user may have deactivated.
Nonetheless, Kenyans have identified him as Granton Angweye, which we have also verified and confirmed and are currently appealing for information that will lead to his arrest by authorities after his post sparked massive uproar on social media.
"This account is proudly claiming that he raped a woman yesterday. People have found his name and number," wrote activist Hanifa Adan.
One of the X users even went as far as calling out the university Angweye studies in, to take action against him. The university is yet to issue a response to the matter by the time of publication.
A statement by EndFemicideKE on Instagram condemned the harrowing incidents, which were deemed political, and which occurred in other parts of the country.
"Yesterday, we received reports that women were raped and sexually assaulted during peaceful protests. This did not just happen in Nairobi; it happened in other areas nationally, too," the statement read in part.
"This violence was not random. days before, media reports exposed plans by state-sponsored goons and insiders to weaponise GBV, targeting women to spread fear. We condemn these brutal, coordinated attacks in the strongest terms. Violence against women is not collateral; it is political."
Any survivor of the ordeal was urged to reach out for support via 1195, Usikimye or Wangu Kanja Foundation.
On June 19, Viral Tea reported that hired goons on Tuesday, June 17, were allegedly instructed to target and gravely harm women participating in the peaceful protests to cause public outrage and force the government to impose a ban on future protests.
This was revealed by Kenyan investigative journalist Dennis Okari, who disclosed that a source had intimated to him that the goons hired to counter the protesters had specific instructions as well as tools they would use to cause mayhem and destruction, making it easy for politicians to pin the blame on the protesters.
Okari, who spoke during a show on Spice FM, revealed that the most chilling thing he was informed of was a deliberate plan to target and stab a few women in the Central Business District (CBD), something that would trigger national outrage similar to what happened in the wake of femicide cases across the country.
"A source told me that Tuesday's protests, and including future protests, the plan was that there are groups that had been identified and each group had a role and tools that they were going to use in these protests, but what was the scariest thing I heard is the plan was 'try and stab a few women in town' because the effect of stabbing a man is different from the effect of stabbing a woman," he revealed.
According to Okari, this would give politicians opposed to the protests verbal ammunition to use against those in favour of the protests, claiming infiltration by criminal elements and giving authorities concrete reasons to ban them in the future.
"You'd draw public outrage when now the calls are 'see what these protests are doing to our women, to our mothers on the streets'. So blame it on the protesters that look, there are criminal outfits that have infiltrated these protests and therefore, the more reason to ban them and so the plan was they were going to get into the city, beat up people, stab and the target was specifically stab one or two or three to make the headlines," he added.
On Wednesday, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) reported over four hundred (400) casualties, including demonstrators, police officers and journalists. Most of them were treated and discharged, eighty-three (83) of them were referred for specialised treatment, and eight (8) with gunshot wounds.
