President Uhuru Kenyatta has formally signed the 2018 Cyber Crime Bill into law. The President put his signature into the bill which will be used against bloggers and journalists.
The bill,which is now law,states:
- (1) A person who, individually or with other
persons, wilfully and repeatedly communicates, either
directly or indirectly, with another person or anyone known
to that person, commits an offence, if they know or ought
to know that their conduct—
(a) is likely to cause those persons apprehension or
fear of violence to them or damage or loss on that
persons’ property; or
(b) detrimentally affects that person.
A person who commits an offence under
subsection (1) is liable, on conviction, to a fine not
exceeding twenty million shillings or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding ten years, or to both
From now henceforth, if you try to expose corruption or any scandal,the law will catch up with you!
