The Interior Cabinet Secretary (CS) has threatened legal measures against social media misuse by youths.
This he said in Uasin Gishu while in the presence of the Head of State.
Recently, there was a viral online display of President William Ruto in a coffin claiming that online AI generated images had become an online playground for online users to the government.
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The CS criticized church leaders and parents to defend the bad behavior by citing an example of a child.
There are those making those pictures with our leaders in coffins; I want to ask every parent particularly church leader, to defend this bad behavior. If your child goes to school and another child whom they share the same class sends a picture when your child has been put in a coffin, will you still defend that behavior?
CS Murkomen stated.
He said that posting such pictures would simply state that ‘I will kill you’ which is wrong as people are clapping for the behavior that has been perpetuated for a long time.
We are going to relook at this behavior, and we will make sure we charge all those who are using this social media to threaten others because if we don’t do so, we will not have an orderly country, we must bring order to our country because we want Kenyans to live in a country of order.
Murkomen added.
President William Ruto also commented towards the matter condemning political leaders and parents for tolerating online abuses against government officials as well as allegedly inciting the youth.
