Sunday, December 29, 2024 - National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwah and his Minority counterpart Junet Mohammed now fully support the ongoing abductions.
This is after they challenged authorities to
arrest those misusing the internet in line with the provisions of the
Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act 2018.
While speaking at a function condoling with
the family of National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula following his mother’s
passing in Mukhweya, Bungoma, the two leaders waded into the discourse that has
gained momentum and called upon law enforcement bodies to do due diligence in
light of the recent trend.
The two leaders urged the police and other
investigative bodies to go after such individuals who they argued are
contravening the law put in place in 2018 to tackle cyber-bullying and cybercrime.
“The ongoing behavior and trend by Kenyans to
abuse people through the internet by posting images such as the ones we have
been seeing lately is very depressing,” Junet stated.
“I want to challenge the DCI to arrest
individuals who are violating the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act and make
it public that you have arrested them and taken them before courts of law so
that it can be a deterrent to those who are misusing computers and artificial
intelligence to insult and do very uncouth, uncivilised things,” Ichungwah
stated.
“To the DCI, you must make use of the laws
that we created and enacted in Parliament back in 2018. I know it had
challenges in court back in 2019 but the same courts reaffirmed that law and
all the provisions of that law, if the DCI are not aware and the police are not
aware are fully in force,” he added.
“All they need to do is implement that law and
end these shenanigans of people insulting each other left, right and center
with impunity and imagining nothing can happen to you,” he asserted.
Individuals who have allegedly been abducted
by persons believed to be officers from the Directorate of Criminal
Investigations (DCI) are said to have shared AI images seen to be in bad
taste towards government leaders.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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