Afrigather A grainy video posted on Twitter on 3 August 2022 reveals Kenyan deputy president William Ruto and one other man sitting on the sunroof of a car, surrounded by a crowd of individuals.
The people are waving placards and singing “yote yawezekana bila Ruto” – Kiswahili for “every thing is feasible with out Ruto”.
Textual content on the backside of the video reads: “MERU TO RUTO: GOODBYE”.
Meru is a Kenyan county about 223 kilometres northeast of Nairobi, the capital.
At one level in the video, Ruto is heard asking the group: “Na hii wimbo mlianza lini?” This interprets as: “When did you start singing this music?”
Ruto is vying to be Kenya’s fifth president within the elections that befell on 9 August.
However is the 25-second clip genuine? We checked.
‘Meru to Uhuru: Goodbye’
We took a screenshot of the video, cropping out the textual content, and ran it by way of a Yandex reverse image search. This led us to a longer video posted on the YouTube channel of the Kenyan TV station NTV on 28 July.
The Yandex hyperlink title reads: “DP Ruto hits out at Pres. Kenyatta; asks him to retire in peace.” On YouTube, its headline is: “Maua residents chant ‘yote yawezekana bila Uhuru’ in Ruto’s rally.”
“Yote yawezekana bila Uhuru” is Kiswahili for “Every thing is feasible with out Uhuru”. Uhuru Kenyatta is the present president of Kenya. He has served his statutory two phrases, and has endorsed Ruto’s rival, former prime minister Raila Odinga, as his successor.
Ruto campaigned in Meru on 28 July.
We additionally typed the phrase “Meru to Ruto goodbye”, the textual content on the video’s decrease third, in a search on Fb. This returned movies with titles alongside the strains of “Meru to Uhuru: Goodbye”.
Within the movies, the group is singing Kenyatta’s identify, not Ruto’s.
The video’s textual content and audio have been altered.
