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  • 2021-09-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Photo of schoolkids sitting on bricks in flooded class from Kenya, not Nigeria’s Kogi state (en)
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  • A photo of children sitting on bricks in a flooded mud-walled classroom has become the subject of political debate among Nigerians on Facebook. A post on the social network claims the photo was taken at a school in the Dekina local government area of north-central Nigeria’s Kogi state . This is not acting, the post reads . This is a real-life situation in Dekina LGA of Kogi State Nigeria. Do these innocent children deserve this? It’s dated 1 September 2021. The post has led to scrutiny of how well Kogi state government and Dekina local authorities are doing their jobs. But does the photo really show pupils in a school in Dekina? Photo snapped in 2019 A reverse image search yields several results, including an article on the Kenyan news site Tuko . Kilifi: Netizens angered by viral photo of pupils sitting on bricks in flooded classroom, the headline of the 9 May 2019 article reads. Other reports in Kenyan media confirm that the photo was taken in the country’s Kilifi county . It shows pupils of Mangororo Primary School , in the Ganze constituency. Africa Check debunked a similar claim about the photo in 2019. Then, it was said to be a photo of a school in southern Nigeria’s Bayelsa state. (en)
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