A video published on TikTok features an image of a purported newspaper front page with a headline claiming Kenya’s electoral commission officials were found guilty by Interpol of receiving bribes. The clip also includes screenshots of posts from a Facebook account in the name of Juliana Cherera, the commission’s vice chairperson, that purportedly reveal fraud at the agency. But the video is false: AFP Fact Check previously debunked the newspaper front page while the Facebook account is a hoax page with no association to Cherera.

The video was published on TikTok on August 17, 2022, and has since been shared more than 1,200 times.

“We want justice, we want democracy for baba (sic),” reads the caption on the video, which has more than 280,000 views.

“Baba” is among several political nicknames for Odinga. In Swahili, it means “father”.

Apart from showing an image of a newspaper front page and screenshots of Facebook posts purported to be from Cherera, the video includes background music in Odinga’s native Luo language. The song urges him to “continue fighting for the presidency and his people… even if it means stealing votes”.

The screenshots of posts from the Facebook account in Cherera’s name make several claims: that a professional hitman hired to assassinate her had been killed for failing the mission; that Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati manipulated presidential election results in favour of one of the candidates; and...

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