Here is today’s roundup of fact-checks across Africa:
Claim: Kenya’s presidential spokesperson Hussein Mohamed resign over ‘rampant corruption’ in government
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: South Africans pay for blood transfusions and paid to donate
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Gaddafi plan to introduce an African currency backed by gold reserves
Verdict: PARTLY FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Protests in Nyahururu town over the arrest of opposition-allied Maina Njenga
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Guardian columnist George Monbiot say he’s had Covid 23 times
Verdict: FAKE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: “I made sure that our police have financial independence.” – RUTO
Verdict: CORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: “Our public debt is in the region of KSh8.8 trillion, close to KSh9 trillion.” RUTO
Verdict: INCORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: “The fiscal deficit, you know, the money we are borrowing, we have reduced it from KSh1.1 trillion last year to KSh630 billion this year. We have reduced almost KSh500 billion.” – RUTO
Verdict: UNPROVEN
Source: Dubawa
Claim: “When Mwai Kibaki came into office, we were collecting about 220 billion [in revenue].” – RUTO
Verdict: INCORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: “By the time [Mwai Kibaki] was leaving in 10 years, we were collecting almost a trillion.” – RUTO
Verdict: EXAGERATED
Source: Africa Check
Claim: This government has employed 35,000 teachers – RUTO
Verdict: CORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: “Five million youth in our country Kenya are struggling by the roads and loitering by shops, jobless.” – RUTO
Verdict: INCORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: Six million Kenyans live in slums.
Verdict: INCORRECT
Source: Africa Check
Claim: “700,000 Kenyans are paid from public coffers, money from taxes.”
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Africa Check
Claim: President Bola Tinubu plans to reduce the monthly allowance allocated to members of the Nigerian Youth Service Corps (NYSC).
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Dubawa
Claim: Cocaine Festival was held in Mexico.
Verdict: FALSE
Source: Dubawa – Ghana
