No, the video of Senate Majority Leader Cheruiyot discussing the Sondu border wars is not current. - iVerify Kenya

No, the video of Senate Majority Leader Cheruiyot discussing the Sondu border wars is not current.

Misleading

Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot made comments about the Sondu town border dispute in 2021, claiming that the Sondu market belongs to Kericho county, not Kisumu. Cheruiyot also claimed that officers from Kisumu were harassing Kericho traders at the market.

He also claimed that Sondu town is 90% Kericho. The senator stated that they had contacted the appropriate government authorities regarding the dispute.

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Verified Oct, 19 2022

Claim

According to Kileleshwa MCA Robert Alai, recent video of Senate Majority Leader Aaron Cheruiyot discussing the Sondu border wars.

Rating Justification

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

To arrive to this conclusion, the iVerify Network of Fact-Checking Desks has conducted the following process. We reviewed the footage and discovered that it was first uploaded on Standard Digital Videos’ YouTube page on June 13, 2021, during a speech by Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot about the Kisumu-Kericho border dispute. This was after escalating tensions among traders in the border town of Sondu, which the legislator claimed belongs to Kericho county, causing concern among Kisumu traders and the Kisumu County government.

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