Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs has urged the youth to exercise caution while engaging with strangers on social media.
Mudavadi said religious and community leaders should make the youth understand that social media can be dangerous to them if they are not careful.
“Let us caution our youth. Technology is good but we must be careful when embracing it. Let us be careful not to endanger our lives,” he said.
Mudavadi was speaking at a thanksgiving prayer service at All Angels Cathedral Grounds in Bondo.
He added that leaders must send the message that in social media, there are predators.
“We must acknowledge that there are hyenas who have infiltrated the social media. They are luring our young children both boys and girls and we are beginning to see some of them losing their lives,” he stated.
Mudavadi’s remarks come a day after thousands of Kenyans took to the streets in various parts of the country to protest against an increase in femicide cases.
Reports of at least a dozen cases of femicide since the start of the year have prompted public outrage, debate and demonstrations across the country.
Women marched in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu on Saturday carrying placards that called for an end to femicide.
On January 18, the Legio Maria Church advised women not to trust strangers straightforwardly in the wake of increased cases of femicide across the country.
The church urged women to exercise caution whenever they enter into any kind of relationship.
“Looks, promises and fancy words are deceiving. They should not make you fall into the trap of the enemy,” Bishop Wycliffe Nyapera said.
Earlier, female Parliamentarians asked President William Ruto to declare femicide and other forms of Gender Based Violence a national disaster.
Kenya Women Parliamentary Association (KEWOPA) further called on the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and the Inspector General of Police to speed up investigations into all ongoing femicide cases and bring perpetrators to book.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga also waded into the increased cases of femicide.
Raila said the murders should not be allowed to become the new norm.
