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TikTok posing huge security threats, Kindiki tells committee

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The government now claims that social media platforms including TikTok pose a threat to security in the country.

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki, appearing before the Public Petitions Committee on Thursday, March 21, claimed that the social media application is being used to "generate war propaganda and spread malicious and unlawful content."

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