No, President Ruto’s Presidential standard is not green

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President William Ruto’s green Presidential standard – Radio Citizen

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. We attended President William Ruto’s inaugural ceremony, where he was pronounced Kenya’s fifth President on September 13, 2022, and the presidential standard unveiled was yellow.

We also discovered a footage uploaded on Citizen TV’s YouTube channel on Tuesday, September 13, when the Presidential Standard was raised for the first time at Kasarani after emeritus President Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential standard was lowered.

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Video of President Ruto’s Presidential Standard being unveiled

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