No, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has not been appointed to the UN Board of Directors. - iVerify Kenya

No, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga has not been appointed to the UN Board of Directors.

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The United Nations (UN) and the Azimio la Umoja Coalition have not issued an official statement in support of the report.

We contacted the intergovernmental organization’s Information and Telecommunication Technology personnel, who confirmed that the information is false.

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Verified Sep, 26 2022

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Azimio coalition presidential candidate Raila Odinga has been selected to the United Nations Board of Directors.

Rating Justification

The iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has fact-checked this content and established that it is False.

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. On September 22, 2022, we contacted UN staff, who confirmed that the story is untrue and that if Azimio coalition presidential candidate Raila Odinga had been appointed to the UN Board of Directors, he would have attended the 77th UN General Assembly in New York on September 21.

Raila’s former spokesman, Salim Lone, stated the claim is false in a tweet on September 14, 2022.

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