This photo on Facebook comparing Azimio coalition leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President (DP) Rigathi Gachagua walking in Nairobi’s Central Business District (CBD) on 10 July 2023 is PARTLY FALSE.

The first photo is of Odinga accompanied by a crowd, and the second depicts Gachagua walking with only four people behind him.

“After Baba Raila Odinga left Nairobi CBD, Gachagua decided to stroll at the heart of Nairobi CBD to show Jakom (Chairperson) that he has numbers,” the post reads.

A Google reverse image search of the first photo led us to this video of the Azimio leader addressing a rally in Nairobi CBD on 10 July 2023.

A similar video was published online by Odinga, Azimio TV, and Kenya Digital News.

Kenyan news media, including Citizen Digital, The Star, Nairobi News, and The Standard, covered the opposition chief’s tour of Nairobi’s CBD on 10 July 2023.

A Google reverse image search on the second photo established that it was shared on 26 May 2023.

According to a Kenyans.co.ke post, the image was captured as Gachagua walked to the Kenya Revenue Authority’s headquarters at the Times Tower building.

The DP also published similar photos on Twitter and Facebook.

A keyword search about the country’s second in command walking in the CBD on 10 July 2023 yielded negative results.

PesaCheck examined a photo on Facebook purportedly comparing Kenya’s Azimio coalition leader Raila Odinga and Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua walking in Nairobi’s CBD on 10 July 2023 and found it to be PARTLY 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 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, visit pesacheck.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.