Former Kiambu Governor William Kabogo now wants expiry date for data bundles to be abolished by mobile data service providers.
He said it was an economic servitude and unfair for telcos to take off paid data bundles for their customers due to expiry time frames.
Speaking to the Business Daily, the former county boss said consumers should be allowed to use their data at their own pace and time-frame since it was not a 'pregnancy that must be delivered after nine months'.
"(Telcos) are treating their data bundles like a pregnancy that once you carry it to term, you got no choice but give birth," he said.
Kabogo said data bundles, just like any other consumable goods, should be used according to the plan and convenience of the customer.
"You cannot sell me sugar and then attach a condition that if I will not have consumed it within a specified time frame then you will come to repossess it…What you buy must belong to you," the flamboyant politician said.
He said should mobile data service providers fail to renew unused data bundles upon expiry date, he will direct his lawyers to file a case in the court of the issue he insists amounts to economic servitude.
"We are not saying that we are compensated for data not used within specified time frames. If it is for their logistical convenience that there must be an expiry date, then all unconsumed data as long it was initially paid for should be renewed and not expire," Kabogo said.