This is a country of free speech and we would like to have people expressing themselves in all manner of ways, but if we allow this trend to go on then we will be curtailing freedom of speech in this country, the lawmaker added.
Isiolo Senator Fatuma Dullo accused security agencies of being used by those in power to silence political bloggers.
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There are counties where governors are recruiting young people [to harass and intimidate their opponents] and it is worrying. The government should find ways of stopping such arrangements, she said.
In March this year, Peris Mugera, a social media political commentator in Tharaka Nithi County, was found dead on the Makutano-Sagana highway in Kirinyaga County after she had been reported missing on February 19 after leaving home to meet friends.
