Nairobi County’s Chief Officer for Environment, Geoffrey Mosiria, has called for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for leaking and circulating an explicit private video of a woman who has come to be known online as the “Mama Mboga.”

Mosiria said he had personally seen the clip and urged law enforcement to act swiftly, arguing that arresting those who distribute such material would send a clear message that violating people’s privacy will not be tolerated.

In a statement shared on social media, Mosiria described the footage as deeply troubling and said the woman in the video appeared to be a mature, working mother.

He blamed the men who trade in and amplify such content, calling on citizens to stop circulating private material for cheap laughs or clicks.

Mosiria’s intervention comes amid a recurring pattern online where intimate or compromising clips of private citizens surface and quickly spread across platforms, often without context or consent.

He urged anyone who can identify the person or persons who made or shared the video to hand that information to the police, and pleaded with the victim to report the incident so her case can be pursued formally.

In several posts, he framed the matter as not merely moral but legal, saying that the law can and should be used to protect victims and punish perpetrators.

Beyond calls for arrests, Mosiria appealed to the public conscience. He warned that normalizing the sharing of intimate content erodes the dignity of victims, fuels misogyny, and can have severe consequences for the families involved.

His comments followed an outcry on X, Facebook and Instagram where users debated privacy, accountability and whether social platforms should do more to stop the spread of non-consensual material.

The leak has again focused attention on how quickly private images and videos travel online and the limited protection many victims feel they have, once something goes viral.

Mosiria’s demand for arrests adds pressure on investigators and platform moderators to move beyond takedowns and pursue those who record, share or traffic in such content.

It is alleged that the footage was leaked after the woman took her smartphone to a local phone repair technician (“fundi wa simu”) who reportedly accessed the device and then leaked the private video to third parties.

According to posts circulating online, the technician is accused of making the recording public without the woman’s knowledge. 

This come just a week after William Ruto signed the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2024 into law, which expands protections against online harassment and non-consensual sharing of intimate content.

The timing underscores the new legal landscape in which digital privacy violations are being taken increasingly seriously.