No, the image does not depict outgoing President Kenyatta’s personal belongings being removed from State House.

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Personal belongings of outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta have been removed from the State House.

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To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We reversed the image and discovered that it was first shared on April 9, 2013, by journalists Larry Madowo and John Allan Namu, when the moving company trucks left State House Nairobi ahead of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration.

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No, the image does not depict outgoing President Kenyatta’s personal belongings being removed from State House.

The photo was taken in 2013, just before President Uhuru Kenyatta’s inauguration as Kenya’s fourth president, as moving company trucks left State House Nairobi.

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