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A photo of Ugandan police spokesperson Fred Enanga aiming a catapult is circulating on Facebook in March 2022 with the claim that he hit a journalist with the weapon. Newly appointed Uganda police spokesman hits News reporter with a caterpult for asking irrelevant question, the caption reads . The catapult Enanga is holding doesn’t seem to be loaded. But is the claim true? We checked. Press conference on illegally imported catapults A Google reverse image search reveals that the photo is almost a year old. It appears in several news reports from April 2021, on the Ugandan police probing the source and motive for illegally imported catapults. Its caption reads : Fred Enanga showing how some of the recovered catapults are being used. The photo is also in a press statement on the Uganda Police Force website , dated 12 April 2021. And we found a news clip of the press conference, produced by the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation . The claim is false.
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