State House Director of Digital, Innovations & Diaspora Communications, Dennis Itumbi has called on Kenyans to exercise caution on social media especially on accounts bearing high profile citizens.
Itumbi was responding to incidents where First Lady Margret Kenyatta’s parody accounts on Facebook have been used to do fake businesses .
Currently , First Lady Margret Kenyatta has several parody accounts on Facebook, some of which are being operated by con men intending to defraud innocent Kenyans.
Impersonators are using the accounts to run projects purportedly empowering the youth, businesses or fighting poverty.
The parody accounts are. For example, one of the accounts is running motorcycle and tuk-tuk projects to create employment opportunities for the youth.
He also cautioned anyone against paying any amount of money to the cons claiming to represent Ms Kenyatta.