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Enact laws to fight cyber bullying now

Cyber bullying can cause damage to people. (Photo: Courtesy)

By Carren Cherono

Nairobi, Kenya:  A few weeks ago my hairdresser told me that somebody had posted her number on a website that deals with escorts and call girls. At the beginning she could not understand why she was receiving a lot of “wrong number” calls, until one of the callers explained to her that her number had been posted on the site and he needed her “services”!

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