Kenya’s government has said it intends restricting access to pornographic websites. The East African nation hopes this will prevent what it calls a surge in pregnancies among schoolchildren.
The country’s information minister, Joseph Mucheru has told the BBC that discussions are ongoing to restrict access to such sexual sites to children.
It is also not certain when restricting access to such websites will start. The information minister says the communication regulator has been ordered to come out with modalities to execute the plan.
Kenya’s education minister Amina Mohamed this month said there was a surge in the number of teenagers getting pregnant and dropping out of school.
She said due to the emerging social crisis a “high number of candidates became mothers” even during examination periods.
Many of these school children are between the ages of 13 and 14. Amina said: “If this is happening all-year round, the country could be facing a real crisis.”
Elizabeth Muiruri, of Save the Children is quoted by the BBC as also saying that “Teenage pregnancy is not a new phenomenon in Kenya.
However, the recent media coverage of several girls who delivered during the three days of primary exams that transitions them to high school has been alarming.”
Kenya is not the only African country struggling to deal with teenage pregnancy among schoolchildren.
But the East African country says when teenager get access to pornographic materials online, they are prone to getting sexually active.
It is not clear how the recent surge in pregnancies in Kenya are linked to teenagers having access to pornographic websites.
Source: Africafeeds.com
