The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) survey reports that 29 percent of women aged 15 to 49 in Trans Nzoia County experienced technology‑facilitated gender‑based violence (TFGBV), the highest prevalence among all counties.

Machakos and Kericho counties followed closely with 28 percent prevalence, while Wajir and Mandera recorded the lowest rates at two percent each.

Online controlling behaviour was the most common form of TFGBV, affecting 19 percent of women in the 12 months preceding the survey, with online harassment and hacking each reported by five percent and sexual harassment or abuse by three percent.

Among women who had ever been married or in an intimate relationship, 27 percent said the abuse was perpetrated by a current, most recent or former husband or partner; current partners accounted for 61 percent of those cases.

For women who had never been married or partnered, strangers were the most frequent perpetrators (45 percent), followed by online attackers (23 percent) and friends or acquaintances (20 percent).

Social media and messaging apps were the primary venues for TFGBV, with 59 percent of women reporting incidents on Facebook and 47 percent on various messaging platforms.

The UNICEF data show that 26.83 percent of Kenyan children who use the internet have faced online abuse, with unwanted exposure to sexual content affecting roughly 995,260 minors.