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  • 2021-05-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Kenya’s deputy president ‘giving guns to rustlers’? No, five-year-old photo from disarmament drive (en)
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  • A photo posted on Facebook on 9 April 2021 shows Kenyan deputy president William Ruto holding a rifle while a group of men, including Turkana county governor Josphat Nanok, look on. Today a video of a man from pokot saying that Ruto gave some rustlers 240 guns was trending, its caption reads . Now facebook and twitter directives have unearthed a photo of Ruto handing over the guns. The video referred to, which appears to have been originally aired by the NTV Kenya TV network, shows a man identified as a warrior from the Pokot community. He alleges, in Kiswahili, that Ruto gave 240 guns to a rival community so they could kill Pokot people. The video is also dated 9 April 2021. But does the photo show Ruto handing over the guns to this rival community? We checked. ‘Registration of firearms in Turkana’ Using a Google reverse image search , we found the photo in a 16 June 2019 article on the Standard newspaper’s website. It’s captioned: Deputy President William Ruto during a past disarmament exercise in Turkana in 2015. Another image search, using this photo, led us to Ruto’s verified Twitter account , where he posted it during his tour of Turkana county in July 2015. Registration of firearms in Turkana to establish those holding them, his tweet reads . Rogue handlers will be disarmed. Registration of firearms in Turkana to establish those holding them. Rogue handlers will be disarmed. pic.twitter.com/6e4WxFavrz — William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) July 29, 2015 At the time, Ruto’s tour was covered by several media houses. Nation newspaper reported that the photo showed him checking a gun surrendered during a disarmament drive in Turkana. (en)
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