By Evans Isohe.
After deputy president William Ruto political tour at Kondele Kisumu that saw youths peddled his motorcade with stones, there has been a post on Facebook claiming to be from official Facebook page of Embakasi east member of parliament Paul Ongili alias Babu owino. The post applauds the throwing of stones to Ruto motorcade Babu Owino’s post praising the act.
Fake Account
According to Fact Check contacted by Mtaani Radio newsroom the post was not posted by Babu owino as claimed but fabricated. The post even had a blue tick verification making many people to believe it was his real account
Mtaani radio has done its investigation finding out that the post was screenshotted and made to a Photoshop making it to appear real
Real Account
Babu owino has come out shunning the post as fake asking his followers to avoid such fakes news.
This story was produced by Evans Isohe at Mtaani newsroom in partnership with Code for Africa’s iLAB data journalism programme, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie’.’