Kenya demands social media firms to set up offices in the country

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Interior and National Administration Principal Secretary Raymond Omollo. 

Photo credit: Dennis Onsongo | Nation Media Group

The Kenyan government wants social media firms to establish offices within its borders as part of the measures to tame what it terms as “rising abuse” of the online platforms by users in the country.

Dr Raymond Omollo, Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, on Thursday met with various representatives of telecommunications companies and social media firms and informed them of the policy change aimed at ridding online media of ‘bad’ content.

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