Lang'ata MP Phelix Odiwour, alias Jalang'o, has come to the defence of Tiktok after a petition was presented at the National Assembly to ban the app because of the explicit content available on its platform.
According to Jalang'o, most MPs in the house are commenting about the app without any sufficient knowledge.
"Don't ban TikTok. I know so many people in that house are talking about things they don't know. If they know it, they are using it to post one or two things and they don't so many things they can do with it. If I was in my former career, I would have been on TikTok 100 percent. It is where the current generation wants to belong, interact and feel at home," Jalang'o said.
He went on to add that lack of laws to regulate apps in Kenya was the course of all this uproar surrounding the apps considering that many of the apps find their way into the Kenyan market without any limitation.
"There are no regulations to monitor any app before it gets into the country. A developer will just develop an app and post it on Playstore and it will pick up. Until something happens that is when we will realise what is happening on this platform," Jalang'o said.
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The remarks by Jalang'o come after National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang'ula on Tuesday said that he has received a petition seeking to ban TikTok in Kenya.
Wetang'ula said his office received a petition from Bob Ndolo, an executive officer of the Briget Connect Consultancy.
He said the petitioner has decried that the content that is being shared on the social media platform is inappropriate and is promoting violence, vulgar language, explicit sexual content, and hate speech which is a serious threat to the cultural and religious values in Kenya.
