This Facebook post with a photo supposedly of Homa Bay County’s new governor’s park in Kenya is FALSE.

“The current state of the Homabay governor’s Park, just opposite KCB bank. Ng’ama nong’eyo yawaaa. Wang’ni lich (Who knew? This time it is crazy) Thank you H.EGovernor Gladys Wanga for giving us a reason to smile again,” the post reads.

Homa Bay Governor Gladys Wanga launched a governor’s park on 30 June 2023, alongside a stadium and other infrastructure projects.

But is the photo of the park launched in Homa Bay?

We performed a Google reverse image search on the photo and established that it is of RH Rooftop Restaurant in New York, USA.

The picture depicts garden rooms on the restaurant’s rooftop. The rooms are inspired by European gardens and feature Japanese boxwood hedges and London plane trees, among others.

A video shared by Governor Wanga showcasing the park confirmed that it is structurally different from the image we are debunking.

PesaCheck examined a Facebook post with a photo supposedly of Homa Bay County new governor’s park and found it to be FALSE.

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.

By partnering with Facebook and similar social media platforms, third-party fact-checking organisations like PesaCheck are helping to sort fact from fiction. We do this by giving the public deeper insight and context to posts they see in their social media feeds.

Have you spotted what you think is fake or false information on Facebook? Here’s how you can report. And, here’s more information on PesaCheck’s methodology for fact-checking questionable content.

This fact-check was written by PesaCheck fact-checker Rodgers Omondi and edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting chief copy editor Francis Mwaniki.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck managing editor Doreen Wainainah.

PesaCheck is East Africa’s first public finance fact-checking initiative. It was co-founded by Catherine Gicheru and Justin Arenstein and is being incubated by the continent’s largest civic technology and data journalism accelerator: Code for Africa. It seeks to help the public separate fact from fiction in public pronouncements about the numbers that shape our world, with a special emphasis on pronouncements about public finances that shape the government’s delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) public services, such as healthcare, rural development and access to water/sanitation. PesaCheck also tests the accuracy of media reportage. To find out more about the project, visitpesacheck.org.

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