Geoffrey Mosiria warns parents to keep schoolchildren off Facebook
By Charles Ouma, February 26, 2026Nairobi County Chief Officer for Citizen Engagement and Customer Service, Geoffrey Mosiria, has reached out to parents with an urgent plea to keep their underage children away from one of the most popular social media platforms.
In a statement on his official Facebook account on Thursday, February 26, 2026, Mosiria said that there have been many advertisements on the social media platform featuring content that is not appropriate for minors.
He urged all parents to ensure that their children who are yet to attain the legal age of majority are kept off the platform as a means of protecting them.
According to the head of customer service in Nairobi County, ensuring that those aged 17 years and below are kept off the platform will protect them from exposure to content that is not appropriate for their age.
Citing the danger that lurks on the streets of social media, he noted that parents who fail to heed his advice risk exposing their children to the adult content advertisements on the platform.
“To all parents, keep your children under the age of 17 off Facebook. Recently, there have been many adult content advertisements that could easily reach underage children. Let’s protect them from exposure to things they should not see at a young age,” Mosiria stated.
Half-term break
His warning comes at a time when schools across the country are on the mid-term break, marking the end of the first half of term one.
Across the world, access to social media platforms including TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads remains an issue of concern with parents, educators and child safety groups arguing that young people are vulnerable to online harm.
Australia became the first country in the world to put in place a total ban, blocking all children under 16 from using social media.
Australia’s ban
The landmark move came into effect on December 10, 2025, after a study commissioned in early 2025 found that 96% of children aged 10 to 15 in Australia were active on social media, with seven out of 10 children responding that they had come across dangerous material online.
Lillian Ng’ang’a called for Kenya to adopt a similar policy, declaring her total support for child safety.
She shared a screenshot of a news item on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, about the move and captioned it saying, “Kenya should do the same”.