In January this year, Mutua declared content being distributed online by Netflix as immoral. He was speaking after the US-based internet streaming TV rolled out its services in over 130 countries – including Kenya – worldwide. He claimed Netflix had failed to conform to classification regulations.
And, from that time to date, KFCB has issued a series of bans and enthralled us with dubious theatrics now and again, which have left Kenyans wondering whether Mutua could be mad or… well, let’s just go with mad.
In February, a Kenyan band going by ‘Art Attack’ released the music video to their song Same Love (Remix); a song about same-sex rights. KFCB banned the music video; a foolish move if you ask me, because by then, the video had already been uploaded to YouTube. Matter of factly, their ban only served to popularise the song even more. That video now has over 200,000 views on YouTube as per the time of publishing. When they realised their mistake, KFCB directed YouTube to shut down the video. When that didn’t happen either, KFCB ordered the warm chaps over at YouTube to vacate Kenya. I’m going to pause here, just for dramatic effect. And for you to settle down from that laughter before it chokes you.
Then, in April, Mutua banned those small adverts printed on sheets of paper and plastered all over town of doctors (mainly from Tanzania) claiming to help single people find love or get back their lost property or find jobs or lengthen their manhood. That one was fine by me, and most Kenyans, those chaps seriously need to go. But, as if that was not enough, Mutua here went ahead to ban those huge Crown Paints billboards bearing writings along the lines of, “It lasts longer, unlike your boyfriend.” He ordered for those billboards to be pulled down in 14 days. In the same press conference, Mutua banned advertisements containing ‘graphic’, betting/gambling and alcohol content from airing between 5am and 10pm. This was following the board’s directive last year that media houses broadcasting programmes with adult content between 5am and 10pm stood to face prosecution. And then the other week when the KFCB CEO declared that from now henceforth, all wedding shows and wedding videographers were required, err, no, mandated, to collect permits from KFCB first, Kenyans had had enough of the guy. So he was roasted all over Twitter for two days running and all 47 tribes in Kenya rejected him. Even the Ugandans and the Tanzanians chimed in; the Ugandans saying they were still trying to recover from the last election and had their hands full.
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