Officers from the Kenya Film and Classifications Board (KFCB) Nakuru branch with the police on Monday during a crackdown on PSVs displaying content laced with pornographic materials. [Photo: Pristone Mambili]
Eight public service vehicles in Nakuru have been impounded for screening pornographic and obscene music in the ongoing campaign against screening of pornographic content in public service vehicles.
The operation was carried out by officers from the Kenya Film and Classifications Board (KFCB) Nakuru branch in assistance with the police along Nakuru-Nyahururu road as well as those operating in Nakuru town more so Langa Langa route.
Addressing media in Nakuru Town after the crackdown, Dokatu Jirma from the KFCB Nakuru branch said the owners of the impounded vehicles will be arraigned in court for failing to comply.
“So far we have impounded 8 Public service vehicles that will be arraigned in court,” she said.
Jirma added that as KFCB they had received a lot of complains from citizens concerning vehicles that go against the rights of passengers hence the exercise.
She called on the public to cooperate with the board in ensuring sanity is returned on the roads and that the rights of passengers are respected.
“We have carried out investigations and we have received complaints that there are some vehicles which are airing obscene content hence the crackdown. We call on the public to continue supporting the campaign,” she said.
Speaking in Mombasa on Monday when he launched the campaign, KFCB CEO Ezekiel Mutua expressed concern that PSVs are displaying content laced with pornographic materials which are destroying the moral fabric of society.
Mutua said the vice undermines national values and morality, promising a crackdown.
He called on law enforcers and the judiciary to partner with the film regulator to win the war against unpalatable material in vehicles.