“Raila landed UN job … The Enigma is the new UN Political Affairs, Peace and Humanitarian Boss across the world (sic),” reads one of the posts published on TikTok on September 14, 2022, and since shared more than 80 times.
The post features an image of Odinga taken when he hosted Jeremy Purvis from the United Kingdom who was accompanied by Jill Coates from the British Council of Kenya in Nairobi.
Kenya held general elections on August 9, 2022. William Ruto was declared the winner in a tight presidential race with a margin of less than two percentage points against his closest opponent Odinga.
Odinga alleged fraud and challenged the poll results, but the country’s Supreme Court upheld Ruto’s victory.
President Ruto was sworn in on September 13, 2022, and now serves as the country’s fifth president.
Similar posts were also published on Facebook (here and here) and on TikTok (here, here and here).
But the claim is false.
The UN Secretary-General personnel appointments page does not feature Odinga’s name.
Odinga’s spokesman Dennis Onsarigo told AFP Fact Check that there was no truth to the claim.
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