MISSING CONTEXT: This video isn’t of Francis Atwoli reprimanding Moses Wetang’ula in October 2024

The video was initially published in December 2021.

This video on X (formerly Twitter) showing Central Organization of Trade Unions, Kenya (COTU-K) Secretary General Francis Atwoli reprimanding National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula is MISSING CONTEXT. 

“I will be there in Bungoma, I will be there in Kakamega, I will be there in Vihiga, I will be there in Busia, I am going to be there in Trans Nzoia, and there will be no escape route for one Moses Wetang’ula. There will be no escape route for Moses Masika Wetang’ula,” Atwoli says in the video.

The video is accompanied by text reading: “I am personally going to push out Wetangula out of speaker’s seat.”

The video was shared amid reports of Wetangula’s impending ouster.

To confirm the video’s authenticity, Ghetto Radio performed a Google reverse image search on a screengrab from the clip and found a similar video posted in December 2021.

Further in the 2021 video, Atwoli, while beginning his address, refers to Wetang’ula as the Senator of Bungoma, a position he held from 2012 to 2022, which also proves the video is not from 2024.

A keyword search led Ghetto Radio to debunks by PesaCheck and Africa Check which also found that the video is not current.

Ghetto Radio investigated a video on X showing COTU-K Secretary General Francis Atwoli reprimanding Moses Wetang’ula and found it to be MISSING CONTEXT. 

This fact-check was published by Ghetto Radio with support from Code for Africa’s PesaCheck and African Fact-Checking Alliance.