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  • 2021-06-18 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Half-naked woman’ in Kenyan senator’s video link? No, screengrab doctored (en)
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  • A screengrab posted on a Facebook group with nearly 100,000 members in April 2021 shows Kenyan senator Kipchumba Murkomen speaking on TV. In the background is what the user says is a half naked woman with a tattoo. Murkomen is the senator for Elgeyo Marakwet county. Shock as a half-naked woman with a tattoo pops up on the zoom background when Kipchumba Murkomen was debating BBI this morning, the caption claims . Text on the screengrab reads : BBI SHOWDOWN. MPS TO DEBATE BILL TODAY. The BBI is the Building Bridges Initiative , which came out of the handshake agreement between president Uhuru Kenyatta and his then-rival Raila Odinga in 2018 . The BBI seeks to address Kenya’s political, economic, social and ethnic divisions. The same image with a similar caption was posted on a Facebook page with more than 10,000 followers. But did a half-naked woman really appear behind the senator during a video link on TV? Doctored background of KTN News broadcast A Google reverse image search of the screengrab brought up a similar image with the logo of KTN News . We went digging for the video by searching the words BBI showdown on the YouTube channel of the Kenyan TV station. We found two videos , but only one had the same wording as the screengrab. The video , posted on 28 April, shows senators debating the BBI bill. Murkomen appears at the 17:34 mark and speaks for less than two minutes. And at no point in his appearance does a half-naked woman pop up in the background. The screenshot has been doctored. (en)
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