This image on Twitter, purportedly of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga carrying a bottle of liquor, is ALTERED.

The tweet has two images — one of the Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya leader walking on a pedestrian way carrying a bottle of gin and the other of people turning their heads in awe.

“Uyo mzee mlituma mzinga ameenda maandamano (The old man whom you sent to buy a bottle of alcohol has gone for protests),” reads the tweet accompanying the images.

The image was shared on 10 July 2023, the day Odinga used public transportation to commute to Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD).

Odinga shared images and videos of the visit on Twitter and Facebook.

One of the images on Facebook is the original version of the photo we are fact-checking. It is of Odinga holding a mobile device, not a liquor bottle.

PesaCheck has examined the image purportedly of Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga carrying a bottle of liquor and found it to be ALTERED.

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 senior fact-checker Simon Muliand edited by PesaCheck senior copy editor Cédrick Irakoze and acting chief copy editor Francis Mwaniki.

The article was approved for publication by PesaCheck’s 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 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.

PesaCheck is an initiative of Code for Africa, through its innovateAFRICA fund, with support from Deutsche Welle Akademie, in partnership with a coalition of local African media and other civic watchdog organisations.