This archive report was first published on 18 June 2020.
Published on June 18, 2020, Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha has called for the ban of pornographic sites in Kenya, attributing the high rate of teenage pregnancies to their accessibility.
Speaking in Nakuru, Prof. Magoha expressed his intention to lobby the Cabinet and the President to change the law and block access to information related to pornography in the country.
"You see when you are not thinking about sex but someone opens a pornographic page then you start thinking about it and generating ideas. Why is that site accessible in Kenya? Who needs it?" Prof. Magoha posed.
He also questioned the need for such sites to be accessible in Kenya, citing the example of other countries in Africa and Asia that have blocked them.
Prof. Magoha, however, raised doubts about a report circulating on social media indicating that thousands of school girls across the country aged below 19 years have been impregnated between January and May this year.
He termed the figures as "obnoxious" and suggested that some NGOs pushing for the introduction of sex education in schools could be behind the report.
"I would like to interrogate the rate of the pregnancies because they look obnoxious. I am asking myself as a professor, did these girls go and report that they are pregnant? Who is giving us these figures because they seem to be definitive? Could some NGOs who are keen on pushing sex education be using these exaggerated numbers," Prof. Magoha said.
At the same time, Prof. Magoha called for tougher action against individuals who sexually assault girls and urged parents to pay more attention in morally guiding their children.
