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Has Kenyan senator Millicent Omanga openly mocked deputy president William Ruto on Twitter? A screenshot of what seems to be a tweet by the senator has been shared on Facebook. It shows a photo of a large fenced estate next to another of shacks extending to the horizon. The tweet reads : This is deputy president William Ruto resident vs a shopping centre in sogui and he calls himself Hustler Nation #HaslaMwitu. The suggestion is that Ruto lives in a luxury residence while people in his home village of Sugoi live in poverty. The hashtag #HaslaMwitu roughly translates as fake hustler. Ruto has branded himself as a hustler , allied with the working poor, in his bid for the 2022 presidential election. Omanga is reportedly a close ally of Ruto. Did she tweet this? Fake account, now suspended Africa Check searched for the tweet on Google and traced it to a Twitter account that has since been suspended . The suspended account used the senator’s name, but had a different handle than Omanga’s official Twitter account . The official handle is @MillicentOmanga , but the fake account’s was @MiliicentOmanga, misspelling Miliicent with a single l and a double i. Fake or parody social media accounts often misspell words or names so the difference is hard to spot unless you look closely, such as replacing i with l or l with the number 1. The tweet does not appear on Omanga’s official Twitter account. – Dancan Bwire
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