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  • 2021-09-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Kenya’s deputy president with a gun in church? No, photo altered (en)
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  • An image showing Kenyan deputy president William Ruto kneeling in church, a pistol clearly visible in front of him, has been circulating on Facebook since August 2021. A gun on one hand and a Bible on the other, that is how our forefathers lost their freedom, their land and it took blood to regain it, 60 years on, we have a terrorist guarantor who never misses a verse to quote, one user captioned it. The image has also been posted on a Facebook page with more than 260,000 followers, and on a group page with over 1 million members. But did Ruto really go to church with a gun? We checked. Archangel Catholic Church in Nairobi The deputy president is active on Facebook and Twitter , frequently posting about his daily activities. We looked through his recent updates, and found the photo of him kneeling in church on his Facebook page, posted on 1 August. Its caption reads , in part: During Holy Mass at St Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, Langata, Nairobi County. But no pistol can be seen. The image circulating on Facebook has been altered. (en)
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