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A screengrab posted on Facebook shows a TV broadcast with the chair of the Kenyan electoral commission Wafula Chebukati and the vice chair Juliana Cherera on the screen. The chyron – the text on the lower part of the screen giving a summary of the broadcast – reads : SAKAJA HAJAHITIMU Chebukati afichua kwamba Senator hana Degree. That’s Kiswahili for: SAKAJA IS NOT QUALIFIED Chebukati discloses that the Senator has no degree. Johnson Sakaja , the senator of Nairobi, is vying to be the city governor in the elections scheduled for 9 August 2022. The elections law requires gubernatorial candidates to have a degree from a university recognised in Kenya. The screengrab was widely published on Facebook here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here and here . The screengrab has the logo of Citizen TV , a TV station in Kenya, and has the words Bomas Live on the top right of the screen, indicating that it was a live broadcast from Bomas of Kenya . But did the commission disqualify the senator, and is the screengrab of a real broadcast? We checked. No mention of Sakaja in original video A reverse image search on Google Lens led us to a screengrab of a Citizen TV broadcast with the chyron reading Maandalizi ya uchaguzi. A Google search led us to a YouTube news video uploaded by Citizen TV Kenya on 2 June, the day the screengrab went viral online. The chryon reads in Kiswahili: IDHINI YA UCHAGUZI IEBC imeendelea kukutana na wagombea urais kuidhinishwa. This translates as: APPROVAL FOR POLLS: IEBC continues to meet presidential aspirants for clearance. The chyron then changes to MAANDALIZI YA UCHAGUZI Mwenyekiti wa IEBC azungumzia sajili. This means: ELECTION PREPAREDNESS: IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati speaks about the register. At no point is there a mention of Sakaja and his eligibility for office. On 19 June, the electoral commission cleared him to vie for the governor’s seat.
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