President William Ruto and Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen at a rally in Uasin Gishu on January 9, 2025/PCSInterior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has threatened legal action against youth misusing social media.
Speaking in Uasin Gishu, where he had accompanied President William Ruto for a development tour of the region, Murkomen said social media should not be used to threaten others.
“I want to ask this question to every parent, and church leaders who are defending this bad behavior, and politicians who do not agree with us. If your child goes to school and another student puts a picture of his face in a coffin photo, don’t you think that is a threat? He is simply saying I will kill you,” he said.
The CS vowed that his ministry will charge all those who have been using social media to threaten others.
“If we do not do that, we will not have a country. We want to bring order to our country,” he said.
“We want the church and politicians to support our President in his effort to bring order to the country.”
Murkomen made the remarks as Rujto criticised Kenyans circulating social media images depicting senior government officials inside coffins.
The Head of State accused certain politicians of funding young Kenyans to tarnish the reputation of government officials through such posts.
Ruto warned that such impunity had dire consequences, saying it fostered a culture of violence and the devaluation of human life.
The president has lately been on the receiving end of the critics of his administration, who, as a form of anti-government activism, resorted to publishing cartoons depicting him, with others going to the extent of picturing him dead.
The president observed that the cartoonists and other publishers of such contents had been contracted by the naysayers of the government to spread a negative campaign against his government.
“I want to ask the youths not to be lured by small amounts of money to create images showing government officials inside coffins,” Ruto remarked.
