By Rodgers Omondi
This TikTok post with a video supposedly of Jubilee Party Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni lecturing Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga is FALSE.
The post claimed that Kioni castigated Odinga for attending a dinner at State House, Nairobi.
“Jeremiah Kioni shocks Azimio as he lectures baba Raila Odinga for visiting State House for dinner,” reads the intext.
The video was also posted on YouTube, as seen here.
Jubilee Party is one of the factions that make up the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition led by Odinga.
The former Kenyan prime minister was among the guests who attended a banquet hosted by President William Ruto at State House on 31 October 2023 in Nairobi. The dinner was in honour of King Charles III and his wife, Queen Camilla.
But is the video authentic?
We reviewed the entire clip and established that Kioni did not mention Odinga in the video.
Google and TinEye reverse image searches on key frames from the video did not yield credible results.
A keyword search on YouTube led us to a similar video by Nation published on 2 November 2023. The video is titled “Kioni says Jubilee has begun cracking the whip on rebels.”
In the clip, Kioni addresses Jubilee Party rebels, noting that the party is working on taking necessary action against members who have joined other political factions.
The Nation also published another video from the same event, where Kioni announces that Jubilee will soon be conducting a membership recruitment drive across the country.
Odinga is the party leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party. He is not a member of the Jubilee Party, although both parties are in the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition.
A Google search for Kioni lecturing Odinga did not yield credible results.
PesaCheck examined a TikTok post with a video supposedly of Jubilee Party Secretary General Jeremiah Kioni lecturing Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition leader Raila Odinga and found it to be FALSE.
This fact check was published by Piga Firimbi with support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck and African Fact-Checking Alliance.
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