By Rodgers Omondi
Ruto does not mention Odinga anywhere in the video.
A video shared on Facebook claiming that President William Ruto said he will make Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya leader Raila Odinga suffer has a FALSE HEADLINE.
“I WILL MAKE RAILA’S LIFE HARD UF [sic] HE DARES TO WITHDRAW MY GOVERNMENT, I WILL MAKE HIM SUFFER,” reads the headline of the video we are debunking.
PesaCheck performed a keyword search on YouTube and established that the video published on 4 December 2022, is an excerpt of Ruto’s address at an interdenominational church service in Embu County.
We reviewed the entire video and established that it is clickbait as the president does not make any remarks as those indicated on the headline.
In the video, the president responds to the Opposition’s plans to hold public rallies in various parts of the country.
On 2 December, Odinga announced that he and his colleagues will commence a series of public forums from 7 December to deliberate on the petitions filed against four Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioners.
Ruto responds to this by saying he has requested the Ministry of Interior to provide the demonstrators with adequate security, adding that he will not be distracted by calls for demonstrations as his government is focused on delivering the promises he made to the electorate.
The head of state says in Swahili: “Mimi nataka niwahakikishie Wakenya, ile mpango tuko nayo ya kubadilisha uchumi wa taifa letu la Kenya, ya kusaidia wakulima wetu watusaidie kuzalisha chakula, mpango yetu ya housing na agro-processing…Hiyo mipango tutaiendeleza, kuwe na maandamano, kusiwe na maandamano.”
[I want to assure Kenyans, we have plans to change the economy of our Kenyan nation, to help our farmers help us produce food, our housing and agro-processing plan… We will continue these plans, whether there are protests or not.]
We also reviewed the full video of the president’s address in Embu and he does not mention Odinga.
PesaCheck has examined a video shared on Facebook claiming that President William Ruto said he will make Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya leader Raila Odinga suffer and finds it to have a FALSE HEADLINE.
This post is part of an ongoing series of PesaCheck fact-checks examining content marked as potential misinformation on Facebook and other social media platforms.
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