Larry Madowo Attacks Emmy Kosgey’s Father Over ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’
It is 2015 and movies are still being ‘restricted’ in Kenya. After Wolf of Wall Street, Fifty Shades of Grey has met the wrath of the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) for being too explicit and eroding Kenyan morals.
Well, this has not gone down too well with TV personality Larry Madowo who feels the KFCB is just ignorant of the existence of the internet.
In an article in his Daily Nation column, Madowo has mauled Gospel singer Emmy Kosgey’s father, Bishop Jackson Kosgey, who sits in the board as the chairman, for the ban which he says will only accelerate the number of people who would want to know what made the movie get banned.
Larry says that Bishop Kosgey seems not to know that internet exists where anyone can get access to the banned movie any time they want.
“Everybody in Kenya is going to watch Fifty Shades of Grey now, and that’s just terrible. It is all the fault of the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), obviously. The people who run that outfit have never heard of the Internet. They probably spend their time wishing there was a place where they could query everything they had forgotten or had not yet learnt and get an instant answer. That place is called Google, of course, but they don’t know that. The KFCB put on its moral lens last week, got its knickers in a twist and banned the Fifty Shades of Grey. But “ban” is a strong word. so they used the more friendly “restricted”. “It should not be screened or distributed,” they proclaimed, with typical “voice of God” attitude. Don’t be surprised by that because a man of God chairs the board – Bishop Jackson Kosgei.”
Larry goes on to say:
“Yes, a bishop heads the body that classifies films in Kenya and decides what is approved for public viewing. He probably comes straight from Bible study to a board meeting, still levitating from the power of the Holy Spirit.
They didn’t ban the film for being capital-B Bad as many reviewers have agreed that the books were. They didn’t ban it for having an improbable storyline and honestly poor artistry. ‘“Besides being a film which is sexually loaded in tone, visual effects and sound, the film is one among many films which is slowly but steadfastly desensitising viewers into embracing pornography, which is illegal in Kenya,” explained the good bishop.
Only, it isn’t really pornographic. The film starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson doesn’t even have visible genitals.”
